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

You can use the text attribute of the parsed span:

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup('9,413 members',   'html.parser')
>>> soup.span
9,413 members 
>>> soup.span.text
'9,413 members'