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Python HTML/XML parser for simple web scraping.

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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

2.1.1

  • 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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