[Tutor] beautiful soup raw text workarounds?

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Aug 25 07:34:59 EDT 2021


On 24/08/2021 21:15, nathan Smith wrote:
> I actually fixed this myself.

Good, but it would be useful to share how, for the
benefit of future readers...

Surely "raw text" is still inside a tag, even if
its only the top level <body> tag?

> tags=soup.find_all()
> which returns tags only.
> 
> Raw text are not tags.

So how did you extract it?

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