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cssselect2_html_parsing_with_css_selector_queries.py
pythonParses an HTML document and uses CSS selectors to find and extract content fr
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cssselect2_html_parsing_with_css_selector_queries.py
1from html5lib import HTMLParser
2from cssselect2 import ElementWrapper
3
4# 1. Parse an HTML document
5html_content = '''
6 <html>
7 <body>
8 <div id="content">
9 <p class="intro">Hello World!</p>
10 <p>Enjoying cssselect2.</p>
11 </div>
12 </body>
13 </html>
14'''
15tree = HTMLParser(namespace_HTMLElements=False).parse(html_content)
16
17# 2. Wrap the tree
18wrapper = ElementWrapper.from_html_tree(tree)
19
20# 3. Use CSS selectors to find elements
21# matches() returns a list of matches
22matches = wrapper.query_all('div#content .intro')
23
24for element in matches:
25 # Access the underlying element or its text
26 print(f"Found element: <{element.etree_element.tag}>")
27 print(f"Text content: {element.etree_element.text}")