Package lxml :: Package html :: Module soupparser

Module soupparser

External interface to the BeautifulSoup HTML parser.

Functions

fromstring(data, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None, **bsargs)
Parse a string of HTML data into an Element tree using the BeautifulSoup parser.

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parse(file, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None, **bsargs)
Parse a file into an ElemenTree using the BeautifulSoup parser.

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convert_tree(beautiful_soup_tree, makeelement=None)
Convert a BeautifulSoup tree to a list of Element trees.

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Function Details

fromstring(data, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None, **bsargs)

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Parse a string of HTML data into an Element tree using the BeautifulSoup parser.

Returns the root <html> Element of the tree.

You can pass a different BeautifulSoup parser through the beautifulsoup keyword, and a diffent Element factory function through the makeelement keyword. By default, the standard BeautifulSoup class and the default factory of lxml.html are used.

parse(file, beautifulsoup=None, makeelement=None, **bsargs)

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Parse a file into an ElemenTree using the BeautifulSoup parser.

convert_tree(beautiful_soup_tree, makeelement=None)

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Convert a BeautifulSoup tree to a list of Element trees.

Returns a list instead of a single root Element to support HTML-like soup with more than one root element.

You can pass a different Element factory through the makeelement keyword.