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Selector text doc #248

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documentation for selector .get() text
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Expand Up @@ -120,6 +120,15 @@ pseudo-elements::
>>> selector.css('title::text').get()
'Example website'

Extract text witout ::text
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You can extract inner text without specifying ``::text`` in your selctor instead
an optional paramter text=True in the ``get()`` or ``getall()`` methods.
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>>> selector.css('title').get(text=True)
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You can pass additional paramter ``guess_punct_space``, ``guess_layout`` and ``guess_layout``

As you can see, ``.xpath()`` and ``.css()`` methods return a
:class:`~parsel.selector.SelectorList` instance, which is a list of new
selectors. This API can be used for quickly selecting nested data::
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