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Library of web-related functions

Project description

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Overview

This is a Python library of web-related functions, such as:

  • remove comments, or tags from HTML snippets

  • extract base url from HTML snippets

  • translate entites on HTML strings

  • convert raw HTTP headers to dicts and vice-versa

  • construct HTTP auth header

  • converting HTML pages to unicode

  • sanitize urls (like browsers do)

  • extract arguments from urls

Requirements

Python 3.9+

Install

pip install w3lib

Documentation

See http://w3lib.readthedocs.org/

License

The w3lib library is licensed under the BSD license.

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