Get span title using beautifulsoup

Question

I have this span and I want to get the title

<span title="Something"></span>

How to get that with beautifulsoup?

res = soup.find('span')
print res //Was trying to add res.title but result is 'None'

Answer 1

You should be able to access it like this:

res = soup.find('span')['title']

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Edit: I shoudl clarify, res would then be the value of the title attribute. If you want the element to use later, change my code to:

res = soup.find('span')
title = res['title']

Then you could keep using res (if needed).

Also, .find is going to return a single element. You'll want to make sure it is the span you want, since the HTML could have more than one span.