[FIXED] How do I remove some text from "get_text()" output in BeautifulSoup

Issue

I'm making a web scraping program to get the retail trading sentiment from IG Markets.

The output I would like to be displayed in the console is:

     "EUR/USD: 57% of clients accounts are short on this market".

The output I get right now is:

     "EUR/USD:  57% of client accounts are short on this market The percentage of IG client    
      accounts with positions in this market that are currently long or short. Calculated  
      to the nearest 1%."

How do I remove this text:

        "The percentage of IG client accounts with positions in this market that are  
         currently long or short. Calculated to the nearest 1%."

Thank you.

Here's the code:

import bs4, requests

def getIGsentiment(pairUrl):
    res = requests.get(pairUrl)
    res.raise_for_status()

    soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text, 'html.parser')
    elems = soup.select('.price-ticket__sentiment')
    return elems[0].get_text(" ", strip = True)

retail_positions = getIGsentiment('https://www.ig.com/us/forex/markets-forex/eur-usd')
print('EUR/USD:  ' + retail_positions)

Solution

If your string changes but the capitalization not, you can simply create a for loop to look after the 7th upper character and split the string. In this case, it's the letter 'T'.

Something like this:

phrase = "EUR/USD:  57 % of client accounts are short on this market The percentage of 
IG client accounts with positions in this market that are currently long or short. 
Calculated to the nearest 1 % ."

upperchars = []
for char in phrase:
    if char.isupper():
        upperchars.append(char)

final = phrase.split(upperchars[6])[0]
print(final)

The result would be:

EUR/USD: 57 % of client accounts are short on this market

Answered By - tudopropaganda