htmlparse: A basic HTML parser in Python

Installation

# Linux
python3 -m pip install parser-html
# Windows
python -m pip install parser-html
# Build from source
python -m pip install git+https://github.com/AaravMalani/htmlparse

Usage

import htmlparse

with open('index.html', 'r') as f:
    element = htmlparse.parse_html(f.read())
    if not element:
        raise ValueError("Parsing failed!")
print(element.children) # Sub-elements
print(element.innerHTML) # Data enclosed by tag
print(element.outerHTML) # Data enclosed by tag as well as the tag itself
element.innerHTML = 'e>' # Rebuilds this element and sets the innerHTML of all the parent elements
print(element.children) # ['e>'] (The HTMLText element is represented as a string literal)
print(element.children[0].text) # e> (Use HTMLText.outerHTML for an HTML escaped string (e>) however don't set it)
element.outerHTML = '<div class="black blue"><a href="https://github.com/" id="abc"></div>' # Read above statement
# assigning to element.children is in the works
print(tag.attrs) # {"href":"https://github.com/", "id":"abc"}
print(tag.tag_name) # a
element.children = []
element.attrs = {} # WARNING! You have to set it, you can't do element.attrs.update or element.attrs |=
print(tag.outerHTML) # <div></div>

ToDo

• Support for CSS styles
• Support for JS scripts
• Support for assignment to HTMLElement.children list
• Support for text between strings
• Support for CSS selectors
• Support for XPATH