BeautifulSoup: extract text from anchor tag

I would suggest going the lxml route and using xpath.

from lxml import etree
# data is the variable containing the html
data = etree.HTML(data)
anchor = data.xpath('//a[@class="title"]/text()')

This will help:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

data = '''<div class="image">
        <a href="http://www.example.com/eg1">Content1<img  
        src="http://image.example.com/img1.jpg" /></a>
        </div>
        <div class="image">
        <a href="http://www.example.com/eg2">Content2<img  
        src="http://image.example.com/img2.jpg" /> </a>
        </div>'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(data)

for div in soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class':'image'}):
    print(div.find('a')['href'])
    print(div.find('a').contents[0])
    print(div.find('img')['src'])

If you are looking into Amazon products then you should be using the official API. There is at least one Python package that will ease your scraping issues and keep your activity within the terms of use.

In my case, it worked like that:

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as bs

url="http://blabla.com"

soup = bs(urllib.urlopen(url))
for link in soup.findAll('a'):
        print link.string

Hope it helps!