< div id="parrent" > < ul > < li > < span > < span > hi, i want you to get me!!!! </ span > </ span > </ li > < li > < span > me too please!!!! </ span > </ li > </ ul > </ div > Imaging in the example above we want to get all the texts withing the li, note there is only one text by li, but can be imbricated into multiple levels Tags. So how we get it using BeautifulSoup of course. the protperty .string don't do the job, here is a resume about .string: If a tag has only one child, and that child is a NavigableString , the child is made available as .string : (a navigable string is such a text within a tag) for ex: < span > me too please!!!! </ span > here if we have a soup of span , and we call .string then it give as " me too please!!!! ...