How to extract innerHTML from tag using BeautifulSoup in Python

Question

I am trying to extract the innerHTML from a tag using the following code:

theurl = "http://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Darshan"
thepage = urlopen(theurl)
soup = BeautifulSoup(thepage,"html.parser")
rank = soup.findAll('span',{"class":"tierRank"})

However I am getting [< span class="tierRank" > Master < /span >] instead. What I want to show is the value "Master" only.

Using soup.get_text instead of soup.findall doesn't work.

I tried adding .text and .string to the end of last line but that did not work either.

Answer 1

soup.findAll('span',{"class":"tierRank"}) returns a list of elements that match <span class="tierRank">.

1. You want the first element from that list.
2. You want the innerHtml from that element, which can be accessed by the decode_contents() method.

All together:

rank = soup.findAll('span',{"class":"tierRank"})[0].decode_contents()

This will store "Master" in rank.