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I get the following output in my beautiful soup.
[Search over 301,944 datasetsn]

I need to extract only the number 301,944 in this. Please guide me how this can be done. My code so far

import requests

import re

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

source = requests.get('https://www.data.gov/').text

soup = BeautifulSoup (source , 'lxml')

#print soup.prettify()

images = soup.find_all('small')

print images

con = images.find_all('a') // I am unable to get anchor tag here. It says anchor tag not present

print con

#for con in images.find_all('a',href=True):

    #print con

#content = images.split('metrics')

#print content[1]

#images = soup.find_all('a', {'href':re.compile('d+')})

#print images

There is only one <small> tag on website.

Your images variable references it. But you use it in a wrong way to retrive anchor tag.

If you want to retrieve text from a tag you can get it with:

soup.find('small').a.text

where find method returns first small element it encounters on website. If you use find_all, you will get list of all small elements (but there's only one small tag here).