Get value from first span tag in beautifulsoup

Question

I'd like to know how to get $39,465,077,974.88 from this beautifulsoup code

<td><span>$39,465,077,974.88</span><div><span class="sc-15yy2pl-0 kAXKAX" style="font-size:12px;font-weight:600"><span class="icon-Caret-up"></span>4.59<!-- -->%</span></div></td>

I'm new to web scrapers , hopefully you guys have a clear explanation.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '21 at 04:18

2

try using a css selector,

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")

print(soup.select_one("td > span").text)

$39,465,077,974.88

answered Oct 20 '21 at 04:18

sushanth

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Thanks. why td > span ??? – Dev Nocz Oct 20 '21 at 04:21
Selecting element named that is directly within an element named – sushanth Oct 20 '21 at 04:22

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 20 '21 at 13:39

You can get the value like this. Since the value you need is inside a <span> that is inside a <td>

First select the <td> tag using find()
```
td = soup.find('td')
```
Next select the <span> tag present inside td.
```
sp = td.find('span')
```
Print the text of sp
```
print(sp.text.strip())
```

Here is the complete code

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

s = """<td><span>$39,465,077,974.88</span><div><span class="sc-15yy2pl-0 kAXKAX" style="font-size:12px;font-weight:600"><span class="icon-Caret-up"></span>4.59<!-- -->%</span></div></td>"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(s, 'lxml')
td = soup.find('td')
sp = td.find('span')
print(sp.text.strip())

$39,465,077,974.88

Get value from first span tag in beautifulsoup

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