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Parsel
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Parsel is a library to extract data from HTML and XML using XPath and CSS selectors
* Free software: BSD license
* Documentation: https://parsel.readthedocs.org.
Features
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* Extract text using CSS or XPath selectors
* Regular expression helper methods
Example::
>>> from parsel import Selector
>>> sel = Selector(text=u"""<html>
<body>
<h1>Hello, Parsel!</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://example.com">Link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scrapy.org">Link 2</a></li>
</ul
</body>
</html>""")
>>>
>>> sel.css('h1::text').extract_first()
u'Hello, Parsel!'
>>>
>>> sel.css('h1::text').re('\w+')
[u'Hello', u'Parsel']
>>>
>>> for e in sel.css('ul > li'):
print(e.xpath('.//a/@href').extract_first())
http://example.com
http://scrapy.org
History
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1.0.3 (2016-07-29)
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* Add BSD-3-Clause license file
* Re-enable PyPy tests
* Integrate py.test runs with setuptools (needed for Debian packaging)
* Changelog is now called ``NEWS``
1.0.2 (2016-04-26)
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* Fix bug in exception handling causing original traceback to be lost
* Added docstrings and other doc fixes
1.0.1 (2015-08-24)
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* Updated PyPI classifiers
* Added docstrings for csstranslator module and other doc fixes
1.0.0 (2015-08-22)
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* Documentation fixes
0.9.6 (2015-08-14)
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* Updated documentation
* Extended test coverage
0.9.5 (2015-08-11)
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* Support for extending SelectorList
0.9.4 (2015-08-10)
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* Try workaround for travis-ci/dpl#253
0.9.3 (2015-08-07)
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* Add base_url argument
0.9.2 (2015-08-07)
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* Rename module unified -> selector and promoted root attribute
* Add create_root_node function
0.9.1 (2015-08-04)
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* Setup Sphinx build and docs structure
* Build universal wheels
* Rename some leftovers from package extraction
0.9.0 (2015-07-30)
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* First release on PyPI.