I'm trying to sanitize and XSS-proof some HTML input from the client. I'm using Python 2.6 with Beautiful Soup. I parse the input, strip all tags and attributes not in a whitelist, and transform the tree back into a string. However... >>> unicode(BeautifulSoup('text < text')) u'text < text' That doesn't look like valid HTML to me. An...
I'm trying to wean myself from BeautifulSoup, which I love but seems to be (aggressively) unsupported. I'm trying to work with html5lib and lxml, but I can't seem to figure out how to use the "find" and "findall" operators. By looking at the docs for html5lib, I came up with this for a test program: import cStringIO f = cStringIO.S...
Hello, I'm using Python and BeautifulSoup to parse HTML pages. Unfortunately, for some pages (> 400K) BeatifulSoup is truncating the HTML content. I use the following code to get the set of "div"s: findSet = SoupStrainer('div') set = BeautifulSoup(htmlSource, parseOnlyThese=findSet) for it in set: print it At a certain point, th...
I'm looking for a forgiving HTML parser for scraping HTML and extracting data in Ruby. I've had success using BeautifulSoup for this - what is the ruby equivalent? ...
Hi, I've got an HTML table that I'm trying to parse the information from. However, some of the tables span multiple rows/columns, so what I would like to do is use something like BeautifulSoup to parse the table into some type of Python structure. I'm thinking of just using a list of lists so I would turn something like <tr> <td>1,1</...
Let's say I have a structure like this: <folder name="folder1"> <folder name="folder2"> <bookmark href="link.html"> </folder> </folder> If I point to bookmark, what would be the command to just extract all of the folder lines? For example, bookmarks = soup.findAll('bookmark') then beautifulsoupcommand(bookmarks[...
I am trying to read the description from the meta tag and this is what I used soup.findAll(name="description") but it does not work, however, the code below works just fine soup.findAll(align="center") How do I read the description from the meta tag in the head of a document? ...
I am very new to python and beautifulsoup. In the for statement, what is incident? Is it a class, type, variable? The line following the for.. totally lost. Can someone please explain this code to me? for incident in soup('td', width="90%"): where, linebreak, what = incident.contents[:3] print where.strip() print what.str...
I am trying the sample code for the piracy report. The line of code for incident in soup('td', width="90%"): seraches the soup for an element td with the ad=ttribute width="90%" correct? it invokes the class BeautifulStoneSoup(Tag, SGMLParser): method def __init__(self, markup="", parseOnlyThese=None, fromEncoding=None, ...
the pages have only one variable which changes, and each page only holds one image. (example: http://www.example.com/photos/ooo1.jpg ...http://www.example.com/photos/1745.jpg) I'm currently building the script with python and beautfulSoup but am having a problem creating a loop with the changing variable. I just getting started with ...
Hi all. I have a html page <a email="[email protected]" href="http://www.max.ru/agent?message&[email protected]" title="Click herе" class="mf_spIco spr-mrim-9"></a><a class="mf_t11" type="booster" href="http://max.ru/mail/corporate/"> I neeed a parse email string soup = BeautifulSoup(data string = soup.find("a",{"ema...
I have a simple script where I am fetching an HTML page, passing it to BeautifulSoup to remove all script and style tags, then I want to pass the HTML result to another method. Is there an easy way to do this? Skimming the BeautifulSoup.py, I haven't seen it yet. soup = BeautifulSoup(html) for script in soup("script"): soup.script.e...
Hi all first a short summery: python ver: 3.1 system: Linux (Ubuntu) I am trying to do some data retrieval through Python and BeautifulSoup. Unfortunately some of the tables I am trying to process contains cells where the following text string exists: 789.82 ± 10.28 For this i to work i need two things: How do i handle "weird" sym...
I am more than a bit tired, but here goes: I am doing tome HTML scraping in python 2.6.5 with BeautifulSoap on an ubuntubox Reason for python 2.6.5: BeautifulSoap sucks under 3.1 I try to run the following code: # dataretriveal from html files from DETHERM # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import sys,os,re,csv from BeautifulSoup import Beauti...
I am new to python and i have a module that works fine with BeautifulSoup and parses the HTML file, i want to use this module as a function on another file, but i copied almost the exact same code in the funcion but now i get this error: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'findAll' Here is the code of the module that wo...
I'm currently reformatting some HTML pages with BeautifulSoup, and I ran into bit of a problem. My problem is that the original HTML has things like this: <li><p>stff</p></li> and <li><div><p>Stuff</p></div></li> as well as <li><div><p><strong>stff</strong></p></div><li> With BeautifulSoup I hope to eliminate the div and the ...
hello All. i have some problem to extract some data from html source. following is sniffit of my html source code, and i want to extract string value in every following <td class="gamedate">10/12 00:59</b></td> <td class="gametype">오버언더</b></td> <td class="legue"><nobr style="width:100%;overflow:hidden;letter-spacing:-1;font-size...
Possible Duplicate: python beautifulsoup related problem hello All. i have some problem to extract some data from html source. following is sniffit of my html source code, and i want to extract string value in every following <td class="gamedate">10/12 00:59</b></td> <td class="gametype">오버언더</b></td> <td class="legue"...
i started this script in Calibre. when i found out that Calibre can not do what i want, i installed spyder and i am now in the process of making it real python. i am trying (at this stage) to get a list of url from an index. in the new urls, i want to get other urls (sort of an index of indexs) in order to get to the 2ns level index i n...
Hi I'm new to both Python and Beautiful soup. I'm trying to get the text only from a certain part of a table. But it seems the result of a findAll is not a BeautifulSoup type that I can run findAll on again. select = soup.find('table',{'id':"tp_section_1"}) print "got the right table" tissues = select.findAll('td',{"class":re.compile("t...