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.
- Extract text using CSS or XPath selectors
- Remove elements using CSS or XPath selectors
- Regular expression helper methods
Example (open online demo):
>>> 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').get()
'Hello, Parsel!'
>>>
>>> sel.css('h1::text').re('\w+')
['Hello', 'Parsel']
>>>
>>> for e in sel.css('ul > li'):
... print(e.xpath('.//a/@href').get())
http://example.com
http://scrapy.org