webfast

Fast HTML Abstraction and Generator for Python.

You're building the next big thing and definitely writing the perfect HTML file is not on the priority.

WebFast let's you create HTML documents on the go and inside your Python scripts. It is built on top of lxml.html plus with another level of abstraction, so you can code with no trouble of messing up with closing tags--it is so quick and easy!

Here's a sample syntax:

page[".selector"] = "tag #id.class property='10' > inner text"

And scroll down below for more examples.

Official Release

WebFast can now be used on your Python projects through PyPi by running pip command on a Python-ready environment.

pip install -U webfast

Current version is 1.1, but more updates are coming soon.

This is compatible with Python 3.9+, but will require other third-party libraries during installation.

Usage

Import Package

from webfast import WebFast

Initialization

page = WebFast()
page = WebFast("home.html")

Import Package

page["head"] = "title > WebFast v1.0"

Import Package Basically, you set the parent selector to append the new element.

# create container box
page["body"] = "div #content"
page["#content"] = "div #box.container.light"

# create the popup text
page["#box"] = "div #title.header > WebFast"
page["#box"] = "div .message data-default='Lorem impsum...' > Hello, world!"

# populate the action buttons
page["#box"] = "div #action.btn-list"
page["#action"] = "button #btn1.btn.btn-no style='background-color:#b22222;color:#fff;' > CLOSE"
page["#action"] = "button #btn2.btn.btn-maybe > LATER"

# using lxml xpath
page[".//div[@id='action']"] = "button #btn3.btn.btn-yes > CONTINUE"

Setting Properties

page["html"] = "lang=en" # not yet allowed in lxml
page["body"] = "#canvas"

Yield all matches

for element in page["button"]:
    print(element.tag)

Yield all matches as HTML string

for element in page.get("button", to_string=True, to_xml=True):
    print(element)

Save to HTML file

page.save()
page.save("newFile.html")