Parsel is a library to extract data from HTML and XML using XPath and CSS selectors
Project description
Parsel is a library to extract data from HTML and XML using XPath and CSS selectors
Free software: BSD license
Documentation: https://parsel.readthedocs.org.
Features
Extract text using CSS or XPath selectors
Regular expression helper methods
Example:
>>> from parsel import Selector
>>> sel = Selector(text=u"""<html>
<body>
<h1>Hello, Parsel!</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://example.com">Link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scrapy.org">Link 2</a></li>
</ul
</body>
</html>""")
>>>
>>> sel.css('h1::text').extract_first()
u'Hello, Parsel!'
>>>
>>> sel.css('h1::text').re('\w+')
[u'Hello', u'Parsel']
>>>
>>> for e in sel.css('ul > li'):
print(e.xpath('.//a/@href')).extract_first()
http://example.com
http://scrapy.org
History
0.9.0 (2015-07-30)
First release on PyPI.
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