Get The Text Within a Tag Using Beautiful Soup

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Here we get the text within the first h2 tags on a Wikipedia page using Beautiful Soup.

 1|   import requests
 2|  from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 3|  
 4|  response = requests.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTSE_100_Index')
 5|  parser = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
 6|  
 7|  h2 = parser.find_all('h2')
 8|  
 9|  h2[0].text

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