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Beautiful Soup Documentation — Beautiful Soup 4.4.0 documentation#get-text

get_text()

If you only want the text part of a document or tag, you can use the get_text() method. It returns all the text in a document or beneath a tag, as a single Unicode string:

markup = '<a href="http://example.com/">\nI linked to <i>example.com</i>\n</a>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup)
 
soup.get_text()
u'\nI linked to example.com\n'
soup.i.get_text()
u'example.com'

You can specify a string to be used to join the bits of text together:

# soup.get_text("|")
u'\nI linked to |example.com|\n'

You can tell Beautiful Soup to strip whitespace from the beginning and end of each bit of text:

# soup.get_text("|", strip=True)
u'I linked to|example.com'

But at that point you might want to use the.stripped_strings generator instead, and process the text yourself:

[text for text in soup.stripped_strings]
# [u'I linked to', u'example.com']

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