Trouble retrieving artist name from billboard top 100 site using beautiful soup

Issue

I am trying to retrieve the most popular songs from this url using the python package BeautifulSoup. When I go to grab the span with the artist name, it grabs the proper span, but when I call '.text' on the span it doesnt grab the text between the span tags.

Here is my code:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

r = requests.get('https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/')
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html.parser')
result = soup.find_all('div', class_='o-chart-results-list-row-container')
for res in result:
    songName = res.find('h3').text.strip()
    artist = res.find('span',class_='c-label a-no-trucate a-font-primary-s lrv-u-font-size-14@mobile-max u-line-height-normal@mobile-max u-letter-spacing-0021 lrv-u-display-block a-truncate-ellipsis-2line u-max-width-330 u-max-width-230@tablet-only').text
    print("song: "+songName)
    print("artist: "+ str(artist))
    print("___________________________________________________")

Which currently prints the following per song:

song: Waiting On A Miracle
artist: <span class="c-label a-no-trucate a-font-primary-s lrv-u-font-size-14@mobile-max u-line-height-normal@mobile-max u-letter-spacing-0021 lrv-u-display-block a-truncate-ellipsis-2line u-max-width-330 u-max-width-230@tablet-only">

        Stephanie Beatriz
</span>
___________________________________________________

How do I pull only the artist's name?

Solution

If there's one single character off in the class, it won't catch it. I'd just simplify it by once getting the song title, the artist follows in the next <span> tag. So get that <h3> tag like you do for the song, then use .find_next() to get the artist:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

r = requests.get('https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/')
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html.parser')
result = soup.find_all('div', class_='o-chart-results-list-row-container')
for res in result:
    songName = res.find('h3').text.strip()
    artist = res.find('h3').find_next('span').text.strip()
    print("song: "+songName)
    print("artist: "+ str(artist))
    print("___________________________________________________")

Output:

song: Heat Waves
artist: Glass Animals
___________________________________________________
song: Stay
artist: The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber
___________________________________________________
song: Super Gremlin
artist: Kodak Black
___________________________________________________
song: abcdefu
artist: GAYLE
___________________________________________________
song: Ghost
artist: Justin Bieber
___________________________________________________
song: We Don't Talk About Bruno
artist: Carolina Gaitan, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz & Encanto Cast
___________________________________________________
song: Enemy
artist: Imagine Dragons X JID
___________________________________________________

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Answered By - chitown88