[FIXED] BeautifulSoup Python .text method doesn't return proper text

Issue

I'm trying to scrape soccer results from a website. I get the results with the html and when I try to remove them with .text I get strange output. I use the parent method to get the parent HTML element for the whole score.

The scraper script:

        response = requests.get(url)
        html_soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
        type(html_soup)

        results = html_soup.findAll('strong',text="East Wall Rovers")
        chosen_team_results=[]

        for result in results:
            chosen_team_results.append(result.parent.text)
        print(chosen_team_results)

HTML:

<p class="zeta"><strong>
            Killester Donnycarney FC</strong>
            1
            <strong>Cherry Orchard</strong>
            2
                        </p>
<p class="zeta"><strong>
            Ballymun United</strong>
            2
            <strong>Bluebell United</strong>
            1
                        </p>

OUTPUT:

'\r\n\t\t\tValeview Shankill\r\n\t\t\t1\r\n\t\t\tEast Wall Rovers\r\n\t\t\t5\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t', '\r\n\t\t\tMarks Celtic FC\r\n\t\t\t0\r\n\t\t\tEast Wall Rovers\r\n\t\t\t5\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t', '\r\n\t\t\tBlessington FC\r\n\t\t\t0\r\n\t\t\tEast Wall Rovers\r\n\t\t\t5\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t', '\r\n\t\t\tParkvale FC\r\n\t\t\t2\r\n\t\t\tEast Wall Rovers\r\n\t\t\t1\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t', '\r\n\t\t\tBoyne Rovers\r\n\t\t\t1\r\n\t\t\tEast Wall Rovers\r\n\t\t\t1\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t'

I expect the results to be in plain text just the teams and the points.

Solution

To get rid of the blank space, I recommend you do something like this:

for result in results:
    chosen_team_results.append(''.join(str(result.parent.text).split()))
print(chosen_team_results)

Answered By - Arnav Chawla