Get Beautfiulsoup div class content

Question

i'm working on beautifulsoup. I want to access the text in div. My code is below.

attack = atackersoup.findAll("div", {"class":"col-12 description"})

and my output is below

<div class="col-12 description">
                A denial of service vulnerability was identified that exists in Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.2.
            </div>

I just want the text. Do not show div tags.

Answer 1

To get the text from the tag, use this:

print(attack.text.strip())

Output:

A denial of service vulnerability was identified that exists in Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.2.

Here is the full code:

html = """
<div class="col-12 description">
                A denial of service vulnerability was identified that exists in Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.2.
            </div>
"""
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(html,'html5lib')

div = soup.find('div', class_ = "col-12 description")

print(div.text.strip())

Since you have a list of elements, you should loop thru the elements and print the text, like:

for div in attack:
    print(div.text.strip())