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selectolax is a fast and lightweight library for parsing HTML and XML documents in Python. It is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the popular BeautifulSoup library, with significantly faster performance.

selectolax uses a Cython-based parser to quickly parse and navigate through HTML and XML documents. It provides a simple and intuitive API for working with the document's structure, similar to BeautifulSoup.

To use selectolax, you first need to install it via pip by running pip install selectolax``. Once it is installed, you can use theselectolax.html.fromstring()` function to parse an HTML document and create a selectolax object. For example: ``` from selectolax.parser import HTMLParser

html_string = "Hello, World!" root = HTMLParser(html_string).root print(root.tag) # html ` You can also use `selectolax.html.fromstring()` with file-like objects, bytes or file paths, as well as `selectolax.xml.fromstring() for parsing XML documents.

Once you have a selectolax object, you can use the select() method to search for elements in the document using CSS selectors, similar to BeautifulSoup. For example: body = root.select("body")[0] print(body.text()) # "Hello, World!"

Like BeautifulSoups find and find_all methods selectolax also supports searching using the search()`` method, which returns the first matching element, and thesearch_all()`` method, which returns all matching elements.

xpath is a library for Go that allows you to use XPath expressions to select elements from an HTML document. It is built on top of the html package in the Go standard library, and provides a way to select elements from an HTML document using XPath expressions, which are more powerful and expressive than CSS selectors.

Example Use


```python from selectolax.parser import HTMLParser html_string = "Hello, World!" root = HTMLParser(html_string).root print(root.tag) # html # use css selectors: body = root.select("body")[0] print(body.text()) # "Hello, World!" # find first matching element: body = root.search("body") print(body.text()) # "Hello, World!" # or all matching elements: html_string = "

paragraph1

paragraph2

" root = HTMLParser(html_string).root for el in root.search_all("p"): print(el.text()) # will print: # paragraph 1 # paragraph 2 ```
```go package main import ( "fmt" "github.com/antchfx/xpath" "golang.org/x/net/html" "strings" ) func main() { // Create an HTML string html := `

Hello, World!

Example
` // Parse the HTML string into a node tree doc, err := html.Parse(strings.NewReader(html)) if err != nil { fmt.Println("Error:", err) return } // Compile the XPath expression expr, err := xpath.Compile("//p") if err != nil { fmt.Println("Error:", err) return } // Use the Evaluate method to select elements from the document nodes, err := expr.Evaluate(xpath.NodeNavigator(doc)) if err != nil { fmt.Println("Error:", err) return } if nodes.MoveNext() { fmt.Println(nodes.Current().Value()) // > Hello, World! } } ```

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