pyquery
PyQuery is a Python library for working with XML and HTML documents. It is similar to BeautifulSoup and is often used as a drop-in replacement for it.
PyQuery is inspired by javascript's jQuery and uses similar API allowing selecting of HTML nodes through CSS selectors. This makes it easy for developers who are already familiar with jQuery to use PyQuery in Python.
Unlike jQuery, PyQuery doesn't support XPath selectors and relies entirely on CSS selectors though offers similar HTML parsing features like selection of HTML elements, their attributes and text as well as html tree modification.
PyQuery also comes with a http client (through requests) so it can load and parse web URLs by itself.
Highlights
Example Use
```python from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
this is our HTML page:
html = """
Product Title
paragraph 1
paragraph2
$10"""
doc = pq(html)
we can use CSS selectors:
print(doc('#product .price').text()) "$10"
it's also possible to modify HTML tree in various ways:
insert text into selected element:
print(doc('h1').append('discounted')) "
Product Titlediscounted
"or remove elements
doc('p').remove() print(doc('#product').html()) """
Product Titlediscounted
$10 """
pyquery can also retrieve web documents using requests:
doc = pq(url='http://httpbin.org/html', headers={"User-Agent": "webscraping.fyi"}) print(doc('h1').html()) ```