[FIXED] BeautifulSoup Python get an element called "title"

Issue

So I have the following HTML:

<span title="总播放数236819" class="view">23.7万播放&nbsp;·&nbsp;</span>

and I just want the '236819' from this.

I have the BeautifulSoup object created and the code:

views = soup.findAll('span', class_ = 'view')

How do I add to this/remove from this to get the bit that I'm after?

Thank you!

Solution

You can use for example re module to extract only digits from "title" attibute:

import re
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html_doc = (
    """<span title="总播放数236819" class="view">23.7万播放&nbsp;·&nbsp;</span>"""
)

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

views = soup.findAll("span", class_="view")

for view in views:
    print("".join(re.findall(r"\d+", view["title"])))   # <-- find only digits in "title" attribute

Prints:

236819

Answered By - Andrej Kesely