A small Python package to extract content from web pages.
Project description
Markout
A small Python package I made to extract HTML content from web pages. It is very customizable and I made it to fit my needs (extract multiple pages' code to Markdown, but only some HTML tags which I needed). Due to its purpose being able to convert specific HTML tags into a desired Markdown format this script does not generate any standard output, rather, it uses custom tokens specified in a configuration file, so the output can be formatted into any anything.
Usage
Importing into your code
To use this package you'll need to install it using pip:
pip install markout-html
Then just import it into your code:
from markout_html import *
After that you can use the extract_url and extract_html functions:
result = extract_url(
# HTML page link
'http://example.page.com/blog/some_post.html',
# Tokens to format each HTML tags contents (you can extract only the ones you want)
{
'p': "\n** {} **"
},
# Only extract contents inside this tag
'article'
)
result = extract_html(
# HTML code string
'<html>some html code</html>',
# Tokens to format each HTML tags contents (you can extract only the ones you want)
{
'p': "\n** {} **"
},
# Only extract contents inside this tag
'article'
)
Using the CLI command
Below are a few examples with better description on how to use this package command if you don't want to create a Python script!
If you just want to extract using a string in the terminal, you can use markout_html --extract [string].
You can use the command markout_html with the flag --help for more info.
Configuration
All configurations can be found into a single file: .markoutrc.json (you can specify another name in the terminal with the flag --config), if you don't load a configuration file the script will use its default values. There is an example of configuration in the repository root!
To specify a different configuration file use:
markout_html --config [filename]
The configuration file values
links - object of links to be extracted, each link has a destination value (output file).
Example:
{
"links": {
"http://example.page.com/blog/some_post.html": "out/post.md",
"http://example.page.com/blog/some_other_post.html": "out/other_post.md"
}
}
The example above will get the HTML from http://example.page.com/blog/some_post.html and extract the results into out/post.md.
only_on - string that specify where (which HTML tag) to extract the contents from (e.g. : html, body, main).
Example:
{
"only_on": "article"
}
tokens - object in which each specified HTML tag will be extract into a formatted string and then placed on the output file.
Example:
{
"tokens": {
"header": "# {}",
"h1": "\n# {}",
"h2": "\n# {}",
"b": "\n## {}",
"li": "+ {}",
"i": "** {} **",
"p": "\n{}",
"span": "{}"
}
}
On the example above, the contents of the HTML tag <header> will be extract into the # {} string, so for example, if we had <header>Some text here!</header> the result would've been # Some text here! (this formats the text into Markdown).
Contributions
Feel free to leave your contribution here, I would really appreciate it! Also, if you have any doubts or troubles using this package just contact me or leave an issue.
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