Parsel

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

1.1.0 (2016-11-22)

Change default HTML parser to lxml.html.HTMLParser, which makes easier to use some HTML specific features
Add css2xpath function to translate CSS to XPath
Add support for ad-hoc namespaces declarations
Add support for XPath variables
Documentation improvements and updates

1.0.3 (2016-07-29)

Add BSD-3-Clause license file
Re-enable PyPy tests
Integrate py.test runs with setuptools (needed for Debian packaging)
Changelog is now called NEWS

1.0.2 (2016-04-26)

Fix bug in exception handling causing original traceback to be lost
Added docstrings and other doc fixes

1.0.1 (2015-08-24)

Updated PyPI classifiers
Added docstrings for csstranslator module and other doc fixes

1.0.0 (2015-08-22)

Documentation fixes

0.9.6 (2015-08-14)

Updated documentation
Extended test coverage

0.9.5 (2015-08-11)

Support for extending SelectorList

0.9.4 (2015-08-10)

Try workaround for travis-ci/dpl#253

0.9.3 (2015-08-07)

Add base_url argument

0.9.2 (2015-08-07)

Rename module unified -> selector and promoted root attribute
Add create_root_node function

0.9.1 (2015-08-04)

Setup Sphinx build and docs structure
Build universal wheels
Rename some leftovers from package extraction

0.9.0 (2015-07-30)

First release on PyPI.

Metadata

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