[FIXED] Get the text between a parent tag and its first child using BeatifulSoup

Issue

Let's say I have the following HTML snippet:

<p class="toSelect">
    "some text here..."
    <br>
    "Other text here..."
</p>

any suggestions to how to get the first text between the <p> tag and its <br> child tag using Beautifulsoup in Python?

Solution

You can select element <p class="toSelect"> and then .find_next with text=True:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


html_doc = """
<p class="toSelect">
    "some text here..."
    <br>
    "Other text here..."
</p>"""


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

text = soup.select_one(".toSelect").find_next(text=True)
print(text)

Prints:

    "some text here..."

Answered By - Andrej Kesely