Class HTMLParser

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_BaseParser --+    
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    _FeedParser --+
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                 HTMLParser

Known Subclasses:

• html.HTMLParser

HTMLParser(self, recover=True, no_network=True, remove_blank_text=False, compact=True, remove_comments=False, remove_pis=False, target=None, encoding=None, schema=None) The HTML parser.

This parser allows reading HTML into a normal XML tree. By default, it can read broken (non well-formed) HTML, depending on the capabilities of libxml2. Use the 'recover' option to switch this off.

Available boolean keyword arguments:

• recover - try hard to parse through broken HTML (default: True)
• no_network - prevent network access for related files (default: True)
• remove_blank_text - discard empty text nodes
• remove_comments - discard comments
• remove_pis - discard processing instructions
• strip_cdata - replace CDATA sections by normal text content (default: True)
• compact - safe memory for short text content (default: True)

Other keyword arguments:

• encoding - override the document encoding
• target - a parser target object that will receive the parse events
• schema - an XMLSchema to validate against

Note that you should avoid sharing parsers between threads for performance reasons.