Python HTML/XML parser for simple web scraping.
Project description
What is it?
DHTMLParser is a lightweight HTML/XML parser created for one purpose - quick and easy picking selected tags from DOM.
It can be very useful when you are in need to write own “guerilla” API for some webpage, or a scrapper.
If you want, you can also create HTML/XML documents more easily than by joining strings.
Documentation
Full module documentation can be found here: http://pydhtmlparser.rtfd.org
Changelog
2.1.3
.parseString() now doesn’t try to parse HTML element parameters.
2.1.2
Restored support of multiline attributes.
2.1.1
Fixed #16 - recovery after tags which don’t ends with > (</code for example).
Closed #17 - implementation of ignoring of < in usage as is smaller than sign.
2.1.0
State parser fixed - it can now recover from invalid html like <invalid tag=something">.
Rewritten to use StateEnum in parser for better readability.
Garbage collector is now disabled during _raw_split().
2.0.10
Added more tests of removeTags().
run_tests.sh now gets arguments.
Check for string in removeTags() changed to basestring from str.
2.0.6 - 2.0.9
Fixed behaviour of toString() and tagToString().
SpecialDict is now derived from OrderedDict.
Changed and added tests of .params attribute (OrderedDict is now used).
Fixed bug in _repair_tags().
Removed _repair_tags() - it wasn’t really necessary.
Fixed nasty bug which could cause invalid XML output.
2.0.1 - 2.0.5
Fixed bugs in .match().
Fixed broken links in documentation.
Fixed bugs in .isAlmostEqual().
.find(); Fixed bug which prevented tag_name to be None.
Added op .__eq__() to the SpecialDict.
Added new method .containsParamSubset() to HTMLElement.
2.0.0
Rewritten, refactored, splitted to multiple files.
Added unittest coverage of almost 100% of the code.
Added better selector methods (.wfind(), .match)
Added Sphinx documentation.
Fixed a lot of bugs.
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