Using BeautifulSoup to extract text without tags

My webpage looks like this:

<p>
  <strong class="offender">YOB:</strong> 1987<br/>
  <strong class="offender">RACE:</strong> WHITE<br/>
  <strong class="offender">GENDER:</strong> FEMALE<br/>
  <strong class="offender">HEIGHT:</strong> 5'05''<br/>
  <strong class="offender">WEIGHT:</strong> 118<br/>
  <strong class="offender">EYE COLOR:</strong> GREEN<br/>
  <strong class="offender">HAIR COLOR:</strong> BROWN<br/>
</p>

I want to extract the info for each individual and get YOB:1987, RACE:WHITE, etc...

What I tried is:

subc = soup.find_all('p')
subc1 = subc[1]
subc2 = subc1.find_all('strong')

But this gives me only the values of YOB:, RACE:, etc...

Is there a way that I can get the data in YOB:1987, RACE:WHITE format?

Just loop through all the <strong> tags and use next_sibling to get what you want. Like this:

for strong_tag in soup.find_all('strong'):
    print(strong_tag.text, strong_tag.next_sibling)

Demo:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = '''
<p>
  <strong class="offender">YOB:</strong> 1987<br />
  <strong class="offender">RACE:</strong> WHITE<br />
  <strong class="offender">GENDER:</strong> FEMALE<br />
  <strong class="offender">HEIGHT:</strong> 5'05''<br />
  <strong class="offender">WEIGHT:</strong> 118<br />
  <strong class="offender">EYE COLOR:</strong> GREEN<br />
  <strong class="offender">HAIR COLOR:</strong> BROWN<br />
</p>
'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(html)

for strong_tag in soup.find_all('strong'):
    print(strong_tag.text, strong_tag.next_sibling)

This gives you:

YOB:  1987
RACE:  WHITE
GENDER:  FEMALE
HEIGHT:  5'05''
WEIGHT:  118
EYE COLOR:  GREEN
HAIR COLOR:  BROWN

I think you can get it using subc1.text.

>>> html = """
<p>
    <strong class="offender">YOB:</strong> 1987<br />
    <strong class="offender">RACE:</strong> WHITE<br />
    <strong class="offender">GENDER:</strong> FEMALE<br />
    <strong class="offender">HEIGHT:</strong> 5'05''<br />
    <strong class="offender">WEIGHT:</strong> 118<br />
    <strong class="offender">EYE COLOR:</strong> GREEN<br />
    <strong class="offender">HAIR COLOR:</strong> BROWN<br />
</p>
"""
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
>>> print soup.text


YOB: 1987
RACE: WHITE
GENDER: FEMALE
HEIGHT: 5'05''
WEIGHT: 118
EYE COLOR: GREEN
HAIR COLOR: BROWN

Or if you want to explore it, you can use .contents :

>>> p = soup.find('p')
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> pprint(p.contents)
[u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">YOB:</strong>,
 u' 1987',
 <br/>,
 u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">RACE:</strong>,
 u' WHITE',
 <br/>,
 u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">GENDER:</strong>,
 u' FEMALE',
 <br/>,
 u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">HEIGHT:</strong>,
 u" 5'05''",
 <br/>,
 u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">WEIGHT:</strong>,
 u' 118',
 <br/>,
 u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">EYE COLOR:</strong>,
 u' GREEN',
 <br/>,
 u'\n',
 <strong class="offender">HAIR COLOR:</strong>,
 u' BROWN',
 <br/>,
 u'\n']

and filter out the necessary items from the list:

>>> data = dict(zip([x.text for x in p.contents[1::4]], [x.strip() for x in p.contents[2::4]]))
>>> pprint(data)
{u'EYE COLOR:': u'GREEN',
 u'GENDER:': u'FEMALE',
 u'HAIR COLOR:': u'BROWN',
 u'HEIGHT:': u"5'05''",
 u'RACE:': u'WHITE',
 u'WEIGHT:': u'118',
 u'YOB:': u'1987'}

Using BeautifulSoup to extract text without tags

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