Parsing HTML using Python
I’m looking for an HTML Parser module for Python that can help me get the tags in the form of Python lists/dictionaries/objects.
I’m looking for an HTML Parser module for Python that can help me get the tags in the form of Python lists/dictionaries/objects.
What’s my best bet for parsing HTML if I can’t use BeautifulSoup or lxml? I’ve got some code that uses SGMLlib but it’s a bit low-level and it’s now deprecated. I would prefer if it could stomache a bit of malformed HTML although I’m pretty sure most of the input will be pretty clean. Answers: … Read more
From what I can make out, the two main HTML parsing libraries in Python are lxml and BeautifulSoup. I’ve chosen BeautifulSoup for a project I’m working on, but I chose it for no particular reason other than finding the syntax a bit easier to learn and understand. But I see a lot of people seem to favour lxml and I’ve heard that lxml is faster.
I would like to parse an HTML file with Python, and the module I am using is BeautifulSoup.
I am trying to get a value out of a HTML page using the python HTMLParser library. The value I want to get hold of is within this HTML element:
BeautifulSoup returns empty list when searching by compound class names using regex.