How to parse text in a div, ignoring nested tags, BeautifulSoup?

Question

Python

How to parse part of a div like this:

<div class="example">
<p>bla-bla-bla</p>
<div>something not important</div>
<strong>SomeText</strong>
<br>
Нужный текст
<span style="color:red">Тоже нужный текст</span>
Нужный текст
</div>

The problem is that the text that needs to be parsed inside the div itself is either without a tag or in the tag, but besides it, this div first has a nested div that does not need to be parsed. How to cut off the extra (extra nested div)?

Answer 1

One of the options how to remove the excess:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html_doc = """
<div class="example">
<p>bla-bla-bla</p>
<div>something not important</div>
<strong>SomeText</strong>
<br>
Нужный текст
<span style="color:red">Тоже нужный текст</span>
Нужный текст
</div>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc)
tag = soup.find("div", class_="example")

tag.div.decompose() # убираем вложенный div
tag.p.decompose()  # убираем текст в теге <p>
tag.br.decompose() # убираем перенос <br>
print(tag)

Answer 2

How to destroy nested elements before reading?