Package lxml :: Package html :: Module clean :: Class Cleaner

Class Cleaner

object --+
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        Cleaner

Instances cleans the document of each of the possible offending elements. The cleaning is controlled by attributes; you can override attributes in a subclass, or set them in the constructor.

scripts:

Removes any <script> tags.

javascript:

Removes any Javascript, like an onclick attribute.

comments:

Removes any comments.

style:

Removes any style tags or attributes.

links:

Removes any <link> tags

meta:

Removes any <meta> tags

page_structure:

Structural parts of a page: <head>, <html>, <title>.

processing_instructions:

Removes any processing instructions.

embedded:

Removes any embedded objects (flash, iframes)

frames:

Removes any frame-related tags

forms:

Removes any form tags

annoying_tags:

Tags that aren't wrong, but are annoying. <blink> and <marquee>

remove_tags:

A list of tags to remove. Only the tags will be removed, their content will get pulled up into the parent tag.

kill_tags:

A list of tags to kill. Killing also removes the tag's content, i.e. the whole subtree, not just the tag itself.

allow_tags:

A list of tags to include (default include all).

remove_unknown_tags:

Remove any tags that aren't standard parts of HTML.

safe_attrs_only:

If true, only include 'safe' attributes (specifically the list from the feedparser HTML sanitisation web site).

add_nofollow:

If true, then any <a> tags will have rel="nofollow" added to them.

host_whitelist:

A list or set of hosts that you can use for embedded content (for content like <object>, <link rel="stylesheet">, etc). You can also implement/override the method allow_embedded_url(el, url) or allow_element(el) to implement more complex rules for what can be embedded. Anything that passes this test will be shown, regardless of the value of (for instance) embedded.

Note that this parameter might not work as intended if you do not make the links absolute before doing the cleaning.

whitelist_tags:

A set of tags that can be included with host_whitelist. The default is iframe and embed; you may wish to include other tags like script, or you may want to implement allow_embedded_url for more control. Set to None to include all tags.

This modifies the document in place.

Instance Methods

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__init__(self, **kw)
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature

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__call__(self, doc)
Cleans the document.

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allow_follow(self, anchor)
Override to suppress rel="nofollow" on some anchors.

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allow_element(self, el)

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allow_embedded_url(self, el, url)

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kill_conditional_comments(self, doc)
IE conditional comments basically embed HTML that the parser doesn't normally see. We can't allow anything like that, so we'll kill any comments that could be conditional.

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_kill_elements(self, doc, condition, iterate=None)

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_remove_javascript_link(self, link)

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_substitute_comments(...)
sub(repl, string[, count = 0]) --> newstring Return the string obtained by replacing the leftmost non-overlapping occurrences of pattern in string by the replacement repl.

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_has_sneaky_javascript(self, style)
Depending on the browser, stuff like e x p r e s s i o n(...) can get interpreted, or expre/* stuff */ssion(...). This checks for attempt to do stuff like this. source code

clean_html(self, html)

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Inherited from object: __delattr__, __format__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __new__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __repr__, __setattr__, __sizeof__, __str__, __subclasshook__

Class Variables

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scripts = True

javascript = True

comments = True

style = False

links = True

meta = True

page_structure = True

processing_instructions = True

embedded = True

frames = True

forms = True

annoying_tags = True

remove_tags = None
hash(x)

allow_tags = None
hash(x)

kill_tags = None
hash(x)

remove_unknown_tags = True

safe_attrs_only = True

add_nofollow = False

host_whitelist = ()

whitelist_tags = set(['embed', 'iframe'])

_tag_link_attrs = {'a': 'href', 'applet': ['code', 'object'], ...

Properties

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Inherited from object: __class__

Method Details

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init(self, **kw)
(Constructor)

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x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature

Overrides: object.__init__: (inherited documentation)

_has_sneaky_javascript(self, style)

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Depending on the browser, stuff like e x p r e s s i o n(...) can get interpreted, or expre/* stuff */ssion(...). This checks for attempt to do stuff like this.

Typically the response will be to kill the entire style; if you have just a bit of Javascript in the style another rule will catch that and remove only the Javascript from the style; this catches more sneaky attempts.

Class Variable Details

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_tag_link_attrs

Value:

{'a': 'href',
 'applet': ['code', 'object'],
 'embed': 'src',
 'iframe': 'src',
 'layer': 'src',
 'link': 'href',
 'script': 'src'}

Class Cleaner

__init__(self, **kw) (Constructor)

_has_sneaky_javascript(self, style)

_tag_link_attrs

init(self, **kw)
(Constructor)