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            <span id="eventNameHeader">The Future of Medicine, Health Care and Biological Studies</span>
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    <span id="eventDate">16th   to 17th October 2017</span>
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    <span id="eventCountry">Rockville, Maryland, United States of America</span>
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    <span id="eventContactPerson"><span id="smallerHeading">Contact person: </span>Eduard David</span>
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    <span id="eventDescription">We gladly invite you to attend the International Conference The Future of Medicine, Health Care and Biological Studies which will be held at Johns Hopkins University, just 20 miles away from Washington DC. </span>
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    <span id="eventOrganiser"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #696969;">Organized by: </span>Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS)</span>        <br><span id="eventDeadline"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #696969;">Deadline for abstracts/proposals: </span>21st August 2017</span>        <br>
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How to get text "The Future of Medicine, Health Care and Biological Studies" from above code in python using scrapy?

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response.css('div.eventInfoContainer table tbody tr td:nth-child(3) span::text').extract()

But o/p getting like this "[]"

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As the span element that contains the required information has an id attribute (which should be unique), this should suffice:

text = response.css('span#eventNameHeader::text').extract_first()

EDIT: Using XPath, it's similar:

text = response.xpath('//span[@id="eventNameHeader"]/text()').extract_first()
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Linhart..i'm getting o/p as "u'<span id="eventNameHeader">The Future of Medicine, Health Care and Biological Studies</span>' "..with above code..i want only..."The Future of Medicine, Health Care and Biological Studies"...Thanks in advance...
Oops, sorry, forgot to add ::text in CSS. Corrected the answer.
Linhart..is it possible only through using CSS?just want to know...cant we get it through xpath?..Thanx in advance..!

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