Pure HTML parsing library.
Installation
pip install htmlparsing
# or
pip install git+https://github.com/gaojiuli/htmlparsing
Usage
import requests
from htmlparsing import Element
url = 'https://python.org'
r = requests.get(url)
# init
e = Element(text=r.text, base_url=url)
# Get links
print(e.links)
"""
{...'/users/membership/', '/events/python-events', '//docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html#defining-functions'}
"""
print(e.absolute_links)
"""
{...'https://python.org/download/alternatives', 'https://python.org/about/success/#software-development', 'https://python.org/download/other/', 'https://python.org/community/irc/'}
"""
# Selectors and get attrs
print(e.xpath('//a')[0].attrs)
"""{'href': '#content', 'title': 'Skip to content'}"""
print(e.xpath('//a')[0].attrs.title)
"""Skip to content"""
print(e.css('a')[0].attrs)
"""{'href': '#content', 'title': 'Skip to content'}"""
print(e.parse('<a href="#content" title="Skip to content">{}</a>'))
"""<Result ('Skip to content',) {}>"""
# Get content or html
print(e.xpath('//a')[5].text)
"""PyPI"""
print(e.xpath('//a')[5].html)
"""<a href="https://pypi.python.org/" title="Python Package Index">PyPI</a>"""
print(e.xpath('//a')[5].markdown)
"""[PyPI](https://pypi.python.org/ "Python Package Index")"""