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Using the Python Documentation I found the HTML parser but I have no idea which library to import to use it, how do I find this out (bearing in mind it doesn't say on the page).

Asked by: Nicole511 | Posted: 28-01-2022

Answer 1

You probably really want BeautifulSoup, check the link for an example.

But in any case

>>> import HTMLParser
>>> h = HTMLParser.HTMLParser()
>>> h.feed('<html></html>')
>>> h.get_starttag_text()
'<html>'
>>> h.close()

Answered by: Daniel586 | Posted: 01-03-2022

Answer 2

Try:

import HTMLParser

In Python 3.0, the HTMLParser module has been renamed to html.parser you can check about this here

Python 3.0

import html.parser

Python 2.2 and above

import HTMLParser

Answered by: Rubie584 | Posted: 01-03-2022

Answer 3

I would recommend using Beautiful Soup module instead and it has good documentation.

Answered by: Miller505 | Posted: 01-03-2022

Answer 4

You may be interested in lxml. It is a separate package and has C components, but is the fastest. It has also very nice API, allowing you to easily list links in HTML documents, or list forms, sanitize HTML, and more. It also has capabilities to parse not well-formed HTML (it's configurable).

Answered by: Miller560 | Posted: 01-03-2022

Answer 5

You should also look at html5lib for Python as it tries to parse HTML in a way that very much resembles what web browsers do, especially when dealing with invalid HTML (which is more than 90% of today's web).

Answered by: Agata672 | Posted: 01-03-2022

Answer 6

I don't recommend BeautifulSoup if you want speed. lxml is much, much faster, and you can fall back in lxml's BS soupparser if the default parser doesn't work.

Answered by: Ted863 | Posted: 01-03-2022

Answer 7

For real world HTML processing I'd recommend BeautifulSoup. It is great and takes away much of the pain. Installation is easy.

Answered by: Ada472 | Posted: 01-03-2022

Answer 8

There's a link to an example on the bottom of (http://docs.python.org/2/library/htmlparser.html) , it just doesn't work with the original python or python3. It has to be python2 as it says on the top.

Answered by: Adelaide301 | Posted: 01-03-2022

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