liquidcss 0.2.1

Alters css selector names across css files and html templates.

LiquidCSS

Python package for altering CSS selector names across multiple files.

Description & Implementation

The package offers up a way to counteract targeted scraping by changing all CSS selector names across multiple files to unique identifiers.

Install the package with: pip install liquidcss
https://pypi.org/project/liquidcss/

Usage

Create a python file of any name and place it in your working directory. For the sake of this example we will call the file liquify.py. The liquidcss package offers one main function rename_selectors. The function takes in a list of paths to the CSS files and a list of paths to the HTML files.

Contents of liquify.py file.

import liquidcss

liquidcss.rename_selectors(
    css_files = [
        'tests/samples/css/sample001.css',
        #'tests/samples/css/bootstrap.css'
    ],
    html_files = [
        'tests/samples/html/sample001.html',
        #'tests/samples/html/bootstrap_template001.html'
    ]
)

Execute the file with python liquify.py

The function will create a directory structure with the base folder liquidcss_ inside the directory where the liquify.py file is located. Inside the directory structure the function will place copies of the specified CSS and HTML files with substituted selector names. The mapping.json file will include all substitution relationships.