[FIXED] How to extract single text from <a> tag using Beautiful soup?

Issue

So there are 3 text inside a tag, But I need to extract only single tag below is my code of what I have written as

    import requests
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
    source= requests.get('eg.com')
    soup =BeautifulSoup(source,'lxml')
    article= soup.find('div',class_='content')
    b = article.li.a.text

which is returning all text inside tag ,OUTPUT:

Apple
2 iteams 

but I need only first text i.e Apple HTML CODE AS FOLLOWS

<li class ="iteam">
   <a href="eg.com">
      " Apple "
       <span class ="count">
          ::before
          "2"
          <span class ="countlabel">items</span>
          ::after
       </span>
   </a>
</li>

Solution

You can use .contents[0] to get first content inside the <a> tag (in this case the text " Apple "):

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


html_doc = """
<li class ="iteam">
<a href="eg.com">
" Apple "
<span class ="count">
::before
"2"
<span class ="countlabel">
items</span>
::after
</span>
</a>
</li>"""

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

txt = soup.find(class_="iteam").a.contents[0].strip()
print(txt)

Prints:

" Apple "

Answered By - Andrej Kesely