[Tutor] beautiful soup raw text workarounds?

Tue Aug 24 16:15:22 EDT 2021

I actually fixed this myself.

It was a perspective issue.

I was looking at:

tags=soup.find_all()

which returns tags only.

Raw text are not tags.

Sorry for the time waster.

On 24/08/2021 21:06, nathan Smith wrote:
> Hi List,
>
>
> I'm using beautiful soup to pass a website which is all going well.
>
> I'm having problems though with getting it to include the raw text, 
> that is to say, text not in any tag.
>
> I've done some Googling on this and it seems beautiful soup does not 
> support the text outside of tags? Fair enough!
>
> I was wondering how I could work around this issue?
>
> For instance, is there like, tag.endpos next_tag.startpos so I could 
> do raw-text=text[endpos:nextpos]
>
>
> I've included the web page below for reference so you can see what I 
> mean. the thing I am stuck on is below h2.
>
>
> Nathan '
>
>
> Website:
>
> <html>
>
> <head>
>
> <title>This is my website</title>
>
> </head>
>
> <body>
>
> <h1>Headings</h1>
>
> <p>Paragraphs and such.</p>
>
> <h2>Another heading.</h2>
>
> This text here doesn't <br/>
>
> want to show in bs.
>
> </body>
>
> </html>
>
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