I use lxml.html. Just as good, and MUCH faster. A pain to install though.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abpillai@gmail.com">abpillai@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Thanks all for the suggestions. I think I will start with BeautifulSoup (3.0.7a) and will experiment with other suggested libs if it does not fit into my requirement or if I face issues with this. <br></blockquote><div><br>
You are not going to believe this, but the creator of BeautifulSoup (Leonardo) <br> advised me to use the SGMLParser module in Python for parsing HTML. This<br> was back in 2004 (or 2005) when I had written to him regarding BeautifulSoup<br>
as parser in HarvestMan. He advised me to derive a wrapper from SGMLParser<br> and thats what I did.<br><br> In case you are interested, you can check out the HTML parser used in HarvestMan.<br>It is available at,<br><br>
<a href="http://harvestman-crawler.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/HarvestMan/harvestman/lib/pageparser.py" target="_blank">http://harvestman-crawler.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/HarvestMan/harvestman/lib/pageparser.py</a><br><br>
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Baishampayan Ghose <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:b.ghose@gmail.com" target="_blank">b.ghose@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div><div></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>> Can anyone suggest me a good library for html parsing in python ?<br>
> I googled a found few libararies BeautifulSoup, HTMLParser, SGMLParser etc.<br>
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> Can anyone suggest me which should I go for from your experience.<br>
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</div>BeautifulSoup was OK, but now it's broken. Use lxml, it's very good.<br>
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<a href="http://codespeak.net/lxml/" target="_blank">http://codespeak.net/lxml/</a><br>
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