Get value of span tag using BeautifulSoup

Question

I have a number of facebook groups that I would like to get the count of the members of. An example would be this group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/347805588637627/ I have

Answer 1

In case there is more than one span tag in the page:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(your_html_input, 'html.parser')
span = soup.find("span", id="count_text")
span.text