Module soupparser

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External interface to the BeautifulSoup HTML parser.

Classes

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_PseudoTag

Functions

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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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_parse(source, beautifulsoup, makeelement, **bsargs)

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_parse_doctype_declaration(...)
match(string[, pos[, endpos]]) --> match object or None. Matches zero or more characters at the beginning of the string

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_convert_tree(beautiful_soup_tree, makeelement)

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_init_node_converters(makeelement)

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handle_entities(...)
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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character

unichr(i)
Return a string of one character with ordinal i; 0 <= i < 256.

unescape(string)

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Variables

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_DECLARATION_OR_DOCTYPE = (<class 'bs4.element.Declaration'>, ...

__package__ = 'lxml.html'

Function Details

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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.

Variables Details

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_DECLARATION_OR_DOCTYPE

Value:

(<class 'bs4.element.Declaration'>, <class 'bs4.element.Doctype'>)