Metadata-Version: 2.0
Name: parsel
Version: 0.9.5
Summary: Parsel is a library to extract data from HTML and XML using XPath and CSS selectors
Home-page: https://github.com/scrapy/parsel
Author: Scrapy project
Author-email: info@scrapy.org
License: BSD
Keywords: parsel
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4
Requires-Dist: w3lib (>=1.8.0)
Requires-Dist: lxml
Requires-Dist: six (>=1.5.2)
Requires-Dist: cssselect (>=0.9)

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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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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.


