purehtml-purescraps 0.1.3

HTML data extraction library

PureHTML

PureHTML is a parsing specification for extracting JSON from HTML.

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Installation:

To install PureHTML, you can use pip with following command:

  pip install purehtml-purescraps

Usage

from purehtml import ConfigFactory, extract

yaml_string = """
selector: span
type: array
items: {}
"""
html_string = """
<div>
  <span>a</span>
  <span>b</span>
  <span>c</span>
</div>
"""
expected_output = "['a', 'b', 'c']"

config = ConfigFactory.from_yaml(yaml_string)

print(f"Extracted output : {extract(config, html_string, 'http://example.com')}")
print(f"Expected  output : {expected_output}")

Development

For testing, we use test specifications defined in <purehtml root>/specs. You may run python3 run_tests.py to check if the python implementation is working correctly or has some incompatibilities.

Building

1. Install build pip with this command: python3 -m pip install --upgrade build
2. Execute make clean build to create a clean build output. The output will be placed in dist/

Publishing to Python Package Index

1. Install the twine package: python3 -m pip install --upgrade twine
2. Publish to pypi: python3 -m twine upload dist/* or with make publish

License

MIT