[FIXED] Extracting text outside of a <div> tag BeautifulSoup

Issue

So Im practicing my scraping and I came across something like this:

<div class="profileDetail">
    <div class="profileLabel">Mobile : </div>
     021 427 399 
</div>

and I need the number outside of the <div> tag:

My code is:

num = soup.find("div",{"class":"profileLabel"}).text

but the output of that is Mobile : only it's the text inside the <div> tag not the text outside of it.

so how do we extract the text outside of the <div> tag?

Solution

I would make a reusable function to get the value by label, finding the label by text and getting the next sibling:

import re

def find_by_label(soup, label):
    return soup.find("div", text=re.compile(label)).next_sibling

Usage:

find_by_label(soup, "Mobile").strip()  # prints "021 427 399"

Answered By - alecxe