How to get text from inside a <span class="className">TEXT I WANT</span> in Python

Question

How to get the text as per the Title which amounts to 21,427 as per the screenshot below.

I tried this and it did not work:

rating_count = soup.find("span", attrs={'class':'rating_count'})
print rating_count

This is the output

Answer 1

This will do exactly what you are looking for.

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

data='<span class="rating-count">TEXT I WANT</span>'
soup=BeautifulSoup(data)
t=soup.find('span',{'class':'rating-count'})
print t.text

EDITED:

According the code you have provided. It looks like that as there is not a header defined, google doesn't send the information that you are looking for. Consequently, BeautifulSoup could't find the span because it didn't exist actually. Try this, it works for me:

pkg = "com.mavdev.focusoutfacebook"
url = "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + pkg
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')]
data = opener.open(url).read()

soup=BeautifulSoup(data)

t=soup.find('span',{'class':'rating-count'})
print t.text

Result:

>>> 
1,397