How to get text from span tag in BeautifulSoup

Question

I have links looks like this

<div class="systemRequirementsMainBox">
<div class="systemRequirementsRamContent">
<span title="000 Plus Minimum RAM Requirement">1 GB</span> </div>

I'm trying to get 1 GB from there. I tried

tt  = [a['title'] for a in soup.select(".systemRequirementsRamContent span")]
for ram in tt:
    if "RAM" in ram.split():
        print (soup.string)

It outputs None.

I tried a['text'] but it gives me KeyError. How can I fix this and what is my mistake?

Answer 1

You can use a css selector, pulling the span you want using the title text :

soup = BeautifulSoup("""<div class="systemRequirementsMainBox">
<div class="systemRequirementsRamContent">
<span title="000 Plus Minimum RAM Requirement">1 GB</span> </div>""", "xml")

print(soup.select_one("span[title*=RAM]").text)

That finds the span with a title attribute that contains RAM, it is equivalent to saying in python, if "RAM" in span["title"].

Or using find with re.compile

import re
print(soup.find("span", title=re.compile("RAM")).text)

To get all the data:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup 
r  = requests.get("http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=21580&game=000%20Plus").content

soup = BeautifulSoup(r,"lxml")
cont = soup.select_one("div.systemRequirementsRamContent")
ram = cont.select_one("span")
print(ram["title"], ram.text)
for span in soup.select("div.systemRequirementsSmallerBox.sysReqGameSmallBox span"):
        print(span["title"],span.text)

Which will give you:

000 Plus Minimum RAM Requirement 1 GB
000 Plus Minimum Operating System Requirement Win Xp 32
000 Plus Minimum Direct X Requirement DX 9
000 Plus Minimum Hard Disk Drive Space Requirement 500 MB
000 Plus GD Adjusted Operating System Requirement Win Xp 32
000 Plus GD Adjusted Direct X Requirement DX 9
000 Plus GD Adjusted Hard Disk Drive Space Requirement 500 MB
000 Plus Recommended Operating System Requirement Win Xp 32
000 Plus Recommended Hard Disk Drive Space Requirement 500 MB

Answer 2

I tried to extract the text inside all the span tags inside the HTML document using find_all() function from bs4 (BeautifulSoup):

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
url="YOUR_URL_HERE"
response=requests.get(url)
soup=BeautifulSoup(response.content,html5lib)
spans=soup.find_all('span',"ENTER_Css_CLASS_HERE")
for span in spans:
  print(span.text)