Extract content within a tag with BeautifulSoup

I'd like to extract the content Hello world. Please note that there are multiples <table> and similar <td colspan="2"> on the page as well:

<table border="0" cellspacing="2" width="800">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2"><b>Name: </b>Hello world</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
...

I tried the following:

hello = soup.find(text='Name: ')
hello.findPreviousSiblings

But it returned nothing.

In addition, I'm also开发者_开发问答 having problem with the following extracting the My home address:

<td><b>Address:</b></td>

<td>My home address</td>

I'm also using the same method to search for the text="Address: " but how do I navigate down to the next line and extract the content of <td>?

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The contents operator works well for extracting text from <tag>text</tag> .

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<td>My home address</td> example:

s = '<td>My home address</td>'
soup =  BeautifulSoup(s)
td = soup.find('td') #<td>My home address</td>
td.contents #My home address

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<td><b>Address:</b></td> example:

s = '<td><b>Address:</b></td>'
soup =  BeautifulSoup(s)
td = soup.find('td').find('b') #<b>Address:</b>
td.contents #Address:

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use next instead

>>> s = '<table border="0" cellspacing="2" width="800"><tr><td colspan="2"><b>Name: </b>Hello world</td></tr><tr>'
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(s)
>>> hello = soup.find(text='Name: ')
>>> hello.next
u'Hello world'

next and previous let you move through the document elements in the order they were processed by the parser while sibling methods work with the parse tree

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Use the below code to get extract text and content from html tags with python beautifulSoup

s = '<td>Example information</td>' # your raw html
soup =  BeautifulSoup(s) #parse html with BeautifulSoup
td = soup.find('td') #tag of interest <td>Example information</td>
td.text #Example information # clean text from html

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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, Tag

def get_tag_html(tag: Tag):
    return ''.join([i.decode() if type(i) is Tag else i for i in tag.contents])