How to take only the second value from the div and write it to a variable-CodePudding

Please tell me how to extract from the entire code and write to the variable only the text 'NEEEED'

<div id="statsBlock">
  <h1>JustText</h1>
     <div >
     <div >HelloText<strong>OtherText</strong></div>
     <div >JustText <strong>NEEEED</strong></div>
     <div >hello</div>
  <h2>otherText.</h2>


Code:
soup.find_all("div", {"class": "firmInfo"})

But what to do next? How to extract only the second (the NEEEED text) and write it to a variable?

CodePudding user response：

You can try this

html='''
<div id="statsBlock">
  <h1>JustText</h1>
     <div >Hey</div>
     <div >HelloText<strong>OtherText</strong></div>
     <div >JustText <strong>NEEEED</strong></div>
     <div >hello</div>
  <h2>otherText.</h2>
'''

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup= BeautifulSoup(html,'html.parser')

txt=soup.select_one('#statsBlock h1   div   div   div strong').text
print(txt)

Output:

NEEEED

CodePudding user response：

It's the direct child strong element of a parent element with class firmInfo. That parent is the only even numbered child element sharing that class so you can use :nth-child(even). Anchor the selector list with a leftmost id selector for ancestor.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs

html='''
<div id="statsBlock">
  <h1>JustText</h1>
     <div >Hey</div>
     <div >HelloText<strong>OtherText</strong></div>
     <div >JustText <strong>NEEEED</strong></div>
     <div >hello</div>
  <h2>otherText.</h2>
'''

soup = bs(html, 'lxml') # or 'html.parser'

print(soup.select_one('#statsBlock .firmInfo:nth-child(even) > strong').text)