Extract title with BeautifulSoup

You can directly use "soup.title" instead of "soup.find_all('title', limit=1)" or "soup.find('title')" and it'll give you the title.

from urllib import request
url = "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-35791008"
html = request.urlopen(url).read().decode('utf8')
html[:60]

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
title = soup.title
print(title)
print(title.string)

To navigate the soup, you need a BeautifulSoup object, not a string. So remove your get_text() call to the soup.

Moreover, you can replace raw.find_all('title', limit=1) with find('title') which is equivalent.

Try this :

from urllib import request
url = "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-35791008"
html = request.urlopen(url).read().decode('utf8')
html[:60]

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
title = soup.find('title')

print(title) # Prints the tag
print(title.string) # Prints the tag string content