How to get the internal text value of an HTML tag using BeautifulSoup bs4?

Question

When using BeautifulSoup bs4, how to get text from an HTML tag? When I ran this line:

oname = soup.find("title")

I get the tag titleas follows:

<title>page name</title>

and now I want to get only the inner text page name,, without tags. How to do it?

Answer 1

Use .text to get text from a tag.

oname = soup.find("title")
oname.text

Or simply soup.title.text

In [4]: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup    
In [5]: import  requests
In [6]: r = requests.get("http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27934387/how-to-retrieve-information-inside-a-tag-with-python/27934403#27934387")    
In [7]: BeautifulSoup(r.content).title.text
Out[7]: u'html - How to Retrieve information inside a tag with python - Stack Overflow'

To open a file and use text as a name, just use it like any other line:

with open(oname.text, 'w') as f