"""Beautiful Soup Elixir and Tonic "The Screen-Scraper's Friend" v2.1.1 http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ Beautiful Soup parses arbitrarily invalid XML- or HTML-like substance into a tree representation. It provides methods and Pythonic idioms that make it easy to search and modify the tree. A well-formed XML/HTML document will yield a well-formed data structure. An ill-formed XML/HTML document will yield a correspondingly ill-formed data structure. If your document is only locally well-formed, you can use this library to find and process the well-formed part of it. The BeautifulSoup class has heuristics for obtaining a sensible parse tree in the face of common HTML errors. Beautiful Soup has no external dependencies. It works with Python 2.2 and up. Beautiful Soup defines classes for four different parsing strategies: * BeautifulStoneSoup, for parsing XML, SGML, or your domain-specific language that kind of looks like XML. * BeautifulSoup, for parsing run-of-the-mill HTML code, be it valid or invalid. * ICantBelieveItsBeautifulSoup, for parsing valid but bizarre HTML that trips up BeautifulSoup. * BeautifulSOAP, for making it easier to parse XML documents that use lots of subelements containing a single string, where you'd prefer they put that string into an attribute (such as SOAP messages). You can subclass BeautifulStoneSoup or BeautifulSoup to create a parsing strategy specific to an XML schema or a particular bizarre HTML document. Typically your subclass would just override SELF_CLOSING_TAGS and/or NESTABLE_TAGS. """ #" from __future__ import generators __author__ = "Leonard Richardson (leonardr@segfault.org)" __version__ = "2.1.1" __date__ = "$Date: 2004/10/18 00:14:20 $" __copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2004-2005 Leonard Richardson" __license__ = "PSF" from sgmllib import SGMLParser, SGMLParseError import types import re import sgmllib #This code makes Beautiful Soup able to parse XML with namespaces sgmllib.tagfind = re.compile('[a-zA-Z][-_.:a-zA-Z0-9]*') class NullType(object): """Similar to NoneType with a corresponding singleton instance 'Null' that, unlike None, accepts any message and returns itself. Examples: >>> Null("send", "a", "message")("and one more", ... "and what you get still") is Null True """ def __new__(cls): return Null def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs): return Null ## def __getstate__(self, *args): return Null def __getattr__(self, attr): return Null def __getitem__(self, item): return Null def __setattr__(self, attr, value): pass def __setitem__(self, item, value): pass def __len__(self): return 0 # FIXME: is this a python bug? otherwise ``for x in Null: pass`` # never terminates... def __iter__(self): return iter([]) def __contains__(self, item): return False def __repr__(self): return "Null" Null = object.__new__(NullType) class PageElement: """Contains the navigational information for some part of the page (either a tag or a piece of text)""" def setup(self, parent=Null, previous=Null): """Sets up the initial relations between this element and other elements.""" self.parent = parent self.previous = previous self.next = Null self.previousSibling = Null self.nextSibling = Null if self.parent and self.parent.contents: self.previousSibling = self.parent.contents[-1] self.previousSibling.nextSibling = self def findNext(self, name=None, attrs={}, text=None): """Returns the first item that matches the given criteria and appears after this Tag in the document.""" return self._first(self.fetchNext, name, attrs, text) firstNext = findNext def fetchNext(self, name=None, attrs={}, text=None, limit=None): """Returns all items that match the given criteria and appear before after Tag in the document.""" return self._fetch(name, attrs, text, limit, self.nextGenerator) def findNextSibling(self, name=None, attrs={}, text=None): """Returns the closest sibling to this Tag that matches the given criteria and appears after this Tag in the document.""" return self._first(self.fetchNextSiblings, name, attrs, text) firstNextSibling = findNextSibling def fetchNextSiblings(self, name=None, attrs={}, text=None, limit=None): """Returns the siblings of this Tag that match the given criteria and appear after this Tag in the document.""" return self._fetch(name, attrs, text, limit, self.nextSiblingGenerator) def findPrevious(self, name=None, attrs={}, text=None): """Returns the first item that matches the given criteria and appears before this Tag in the document.""" return self._first(self.fetchPrevious, name, attrs, text) def fetchPrevious(self, name=None, attrs={}, text=None, limit=None): """Returns all items that match the given criteria and appear before this Tag in the document.""" return self._fetch(name, attrs, text, limit, self.previousGenerator) firstPrevious = findPrevious def findPreviousSibling(self, name=None, attrs={}, text=None): """Returns the closest sibling to this Tag that matches the given criteria and appears before this Tag in the document.""" return self._first(self.fetchPreviousSiblings, name, attrs, text) firstPreviousSibling = findPreviousSibling def fetchPreviousSiblings(self, name=None, attrs={}, text=None, limit=None): """Returns the siblings of this Tag that match the given criteria and appear before this Tag in the document.""" return self._fetch(name, attrs, text, limit, self.previousSiblingGenerator) def findParent(self, name=None, attrs={}): """Returns the closest parent of this Tag that matches the given criteria.""" r = Null l = self.fetchParents(name, attrs, 1) if l: r = l[0] return r firstParent = findParent def fetchParents(self, name=None, attrs={}, limit=None): """Returns the parents of this Tag that match the given criteria.""" return self._fetch(name, attrs, None, limit, self.parentGenerator) #These methods do the real heavy lifting. def _first(self, method, name, attrs, text): r = Null l = method(name, attrs, text, 1) if l: r = l[0] return r def _fetch(self, name, attrs, text, limit, generator): "Iterates over a generator looking for things that match." if not hasattr(attrs, 'items'): attrs = {'class' : attrs} results = [] g = generator() while True: try: i = g.next() except StopIteration: break found = None if isinstance(i, Tag): if not text: if not name or self._matches(i, name): match = True for attr, matchAgainst in attrs.items(): check = i.get(attr) if not self._matches(check, matchAgainst): match = False break if match: found = i elif text: if self._matches(i, text): found = i if found: results.append(found) if limit and len(results) >= limit: break return results #Generators that can be used to navigate starting from both #NavigableTexts and Tags. def nextGenerator(self): i = self while i: i = i.next yield i def nextSiblingGenerator(self): i = self while i: i = i.nextSibling yield i def previousGenerator(self): i = self while i: i = i.previous yield i def previousSiblingGenerator(self): i = self while i: i = i.previousSibling yield i def parentGenerator(self): i = self while i: i = i.parent yield i def _matches(self, chunk, howToMatch): #print 'looking for %s in %s' % (howToMatch, chunk) # # If given a list of items, return true if the list contains a # text element that matches. if isList(chunk) and not isinstance(chunk, Tag): for tag in chunk: if isinstance(tag, NavigableText) and self._matches(tag, howToMatch): return True return False if callable(howToMatch): return howToMatch(chunk) if isinstance(chunk, Tag): #Custom match methods take the tag as an argument, but all other #ways of matching match the tag name as a string chunk = chunk.name #Now we know that chunk is a string if not isinstance(chunk, basestring): chunk = str(chunk) if hasattr(howToMatch, 'match'): # It's a regexp object. return howToMatch.search(chunk) if isList(howToMatch): return chunk in howToMatch if hasattr(howToMatch, 'items'): return howToMatch.has_key(chunk) #It's just a string return str(howToMatch) == chunk class NavigableText(PageElement): def __getattr__(self, attr): "For backwards compatibility, text.string gives you text" if attr == 'string': return self else: raise AttributeError, "'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" % (self.__class__.__name__, attr) class NavigableString(str, NavigableText): pass class NavigableUnicodeString(unicode, NavigableText): pass class Tag(PageElement): """Represents a found HTML tag with its attributes and contents.""" def __init__(self, name, attrs=None, parent=Null, previous=Null): "Basic constructor." self.name = name if attrs == None: attrs = [] self.attrs = attrs self.contents = [] self.setup(parent, previous) self.hidden = False def get(self, key, default=None): """Returns the value of the 'key' attribute for the tag, or the value given for 'default' if it doesn't have that attribute.""" return self._getAttrMap().get(key, default) def __getitem__(self, key): """tag[key] returns the value of the 'key' attribute for the tag, and throws an exception if it's not there.""" return self._getAttrMap()[key] def __iter__(self): "Iterating over a tag iterates over its contents." return iter(self.contents) def __len__(self): "The length of a tag is the length of its list of contents." return len(self.contents) def __contains__(self, x): return x in self.contents def __nonzero__(self): "A tag is non-None even if it has no contents." return True def __setitem__(self, key, value): """Setting tag[key] sets the value of the 'key' attribute for the tag.""" self._getAttrMap() self.attrMap[key] = value found = False for i in range(0, len(self.attrs)): if self.attrs[i][0] == key: self.attrs[i] = (key, value) found = True if not found: self.attrs.append((key, value)) self._getAttrMap()[key] = value def __delitem__(self, key): "Deleting tag[key] deletes all 'key' attributes for the tag." for item in self.attrs: if item[0] == key: self.attrs.remove(item) #We don't break because bad HTML can define the same #attribute multiple times. self._getAttrMap() if self.attrMap.has_key(key): del self.attrMap[key] def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs): """Calling a tag like a function is the same as calling its fetch() method. Eg. tag('a') returns a list of all the A tags found within this tag.""" return apply(self.fetch, args, kwargs) def __getattr__(self, tag): if len(tag) > 3 and tag.rfind('Tag') == len(tag) - 3: return self.first(tag[:-3]) elif tag.find('__') != 0: return self.first(tag) def __eq__(self, other): """Returns true iff this tag has the same name, the same attributes, and the same contents (recursively) as the given tag. NOTE: right now this will return false if two tags have the same attributes in a different order. Should this be fixed?""" if not hasattr(other, 'name') or not hasattr(other, 'attrs') or not hasattr(other, 'contents') or self.name != other.name or self.attrs != other.attrs or len(self) != len(other): return False for i in range(0, len(self.contents)): if self.contents[i] != other.contents[i]: return False return True def __ne__(self, other): """Returns true iff this tag is not identical to the other tag, as defined in __eq__.""" return not self == other def __repr__(self): """Renders this tag as a string.""" return str(self) def __unicode__(self): return self.__str__(1) def __str__(self, needUnicode=None, showStructureIndent=None): """Returns a string or Unicode representation of this tag and its contents. NOTE: since Python's HTML parser consumes whitespace, this method is not certain to reproduce the whitespace present in the original string.""" attrs = [] if self.attrs: for key, val in self.attrs: attrs.append('%s="%s"' % (key, val)) close = '' closeTag = '' if self.isSelfClosing(): close = ' /' else: closeTag = '' % self.name indentIncrement = None if showStructureIndent != None: indentIncrement = showStructureIndent if not self.hidden: indentIncrement += 1 contents = self.renderContents(indentIncrement, needUnicode=needUnicode) if showStructureIndent: space = '\n%s' % (' ' * showStructureIndent) if self.hidden: s = contents else: s = [] attributeString = '' if attrs: attributeString = ' ' + ' '.join(attrs) if showStructureIndent: s.append(space) s.append('<%s%s%s>' % (self.name, attributeString, close)) s.append(contents) if closeTag and showStructureIndent != None: s.append(space) s.append(closeTag) s = ''.join(s) isUnicode = type(s) == types.UnicodeType if needUnicode and not isUnicode: s = unicode(s) elif isUnicode and needUnicode == False: s = str(s) return s def prettify(self, needUnicode=None): return self.__str__(needUnicode, showStructureIndent=True) def renderContents(self, showStructureIndent=None, needUnicode=None): """Renders the contents of this tag as a (possibly Unicode) string.""" s = [] for c in self: text = None if isinstance(c, NavigableUnicodeString) or type(c) == types.UnicodeType: text = unicode(c) elif isinstance(c, Tag): s.append(c.__str__(needUnicode, showStructureIndent)) elif needUnicode: text = unicode(c) else: text = str(c) if text: if showStructureIndent != None: if text[-1] == '\n': text = text[:-1] s.append(text) return ''.join(s) #Soup methods def firstText(self, text, recursive=True): """Convenience method to retrieve the first piece of text matching the given criteria. 'text' can be a string, a regular expression object, a callable that takes a string and returns whether or not the string 'matches', etc.""" return self.first(recursive=recursive, text=text) def fetchText(self, text, recursive=True, limit=None): """Convenience method to retrieve all pieces of text matching the given criteria. 'text' can be a string, a regular expression object, a callable that takes a string and returns whether or not the string 'matches', etc.""" return self.fetch(recursive=recursive, text=text, limit=limit) def first(self, name=None, attrs={}, recursive=True, text=None): """Return only the first child of this Tag matching the given criteria.""" r = Null l = self.fetch(name, attrs, recursive, text, 1) if l: r = l[0] return r findChild = first def fetch(self, name=None, attrs={}, recursive=True, text=None, limit=None): """Extracts a list of Tag objects that match the given criteria. You can specify the name of the Tag and any attributes you want the Tag to have. The value of a key-value pair in the 'attrs' map can be a string, a list of strings, a regular expression object, or a callable that takes a string and returns whether or not the string matches for some custom definition of 'matches'. The same is true of the tag name.""" generator = self.recursiveChildGenerator if not recursive: generator = self.childGenerator return self._fetch(name, attrs, text, limit, generator) fetchChildren = fetch #Utility methods def isSelfClosing(self): """Returns true iff this is a self-closing tag as defined in the HTML standard. TODO: This is specific to BeautifulSoup and its subclasses, but it's used by __str__""" return self.name in BeautifulSoup.SELF_CLOSING_TAGS def append(self, tag): """Appends the given tag to the contents of this tag.""" self.contents.append(tag) #Private methods def _getAttrMap(self): """Initializes a map representation of this tag's attributes, if not already initialized.""" if not getattr(self, 'attrMap'): self.attrMap = {} for (key, value) in self.attrs: self.attrMap[key] = value return self.attrMap #Generator methods def childGenerator(self): for i in range(0, len(self.contents)): yield self.contents[i] raise StopIteration def recursiveChildGenerator(self): stack = [(self, 0)] while stack: tag, start = stack.pop() if isinstance(tag, Tag): for i in range(start, len(tag.contents)): a = tag.contents[i] yield a if isinstance(a, Tag) and tag.contents: if i < len(tag.contents) - 1: stack.append((tag, i + 1)) stack.append((a, 0)) break raise StopIteration def isList(l): """Convenience method that works with all 2.x versions of Python to determine whether or not something is listlike.""" return hasattr(l, '__iter__') \ or (type(l) in (types.ListType, types.TupleType)) def buildTagMap(default, *args): """Turns a list of maps, lists, or scalars into a single map. Used to build the SELF_CLOSING_TAGS and NESTABLE_TAGS maps out of lists and partial maps.""" built = {} for portion in args: if hasattr(portion, 'items'): #It's a map. Merge it. for k, v in portion.items(): built[k] = v elif isList(portion): #It's a list. Map each item to the default. for k in portion: built[k] = default else: #It's a scalar. Map it to the default. built[portion] = default return built class BeautifulStoneSoup(Tag, SGMLParser): """This class contains the basic parser and fetch code. It defines a parser that knows nothing about tag behavior except for the following: You can't close a tag without closing all the tags it encloses. That is, "" actually means "". [Another possible explanation is "", but since this class defines no SELF_CLOSING_TAGS, it will never use that explanation.] This class is useful for parsing XML or made-up markup languages, or when BeautifulSoup makes an assumption counter to what you were expecting.""" SELF_CLOSING_TAGS = {} NESTABLE_TAGS = {} RESET_NESTING_TAGS = {} QUOTE_TAGS = {} #As a public service we will by default silently replace MS smart quotes #and similar characters with their HTML or ASCII equivalents. MS_CHARS = { '\x80' : '€', '\x81' : ' ', '\x82' : '‚', '\x83' : 'ƒ', '\x84' : '„', '\x85' : '…', '\x86' : '†', '\x87' : '‡', '\x88' : '⁁', '\x89' : '%', '\x8A' : 'Š', '\x8B' : '<', '\x8C' : 'Œ', '\x8D' : '?', '\x8E' : 'Z', '\x8F' : '?', '\x90' : '?', '\x91' : '‘', '\x92' : '’', '\x93' : '“', '\x94' : '”', '\x95' : '•', '\x96' : '–', '\x97' : '—', '\x98' : '˜', '\x99' : '™', '\x9a' : 'š', '\x9b' : '>', '\x9c' : 'œ', '\x9d' : '?', '\x9e' : 'z', '\x9f' : 'Ÿ', } PARSER_MASSAGE = [(re.compile('(<[^<>]*)/>'), lambda(x):x.group(1) + ' />'), (re.compile(']*)>'), lambda(x):''), (re.compile("([\x80-\x9f])"), lambda(x): BeautifulStoneSoup.MS_CHARS.get(x.group(1))) ] ROOT_TAG_NAME = '[document]' def __init__(self, text=None, avoidParserProblems=True, initialTextIsEverything=True): """Initialize this as the 'root tag' and feed in any text to the parser. NOTE about avoidParserProblems: sgmllib will process most bad HTML, and BeautifulSoup has tricks for dealing with some HTML that kills sgmllib, but Beautiful Soup can nonetheless choke or lose data if your data uses self-closing tags or declarations incorrectly. By default, Beautiful Soup sanitizes its input to avoid the vast majority of these problems. The problems are relatively rare, even in bad HTML, so feel free to pass in False to avoidParserProblems if they don't apply to you, and you'll get better performance. The only reason I have this turned on by default is so I don't get so many tech support questions. The two most common instances of invalid HTML that will choke sgmllib are fixed by the default parser massage techniques:
(No space between name of closing tag and tag close) (Extraneous whitespace in declaration) You can pass in a custom list of (RE object, replace method) tuples to get Beautiful Soup to scrub your input the way you want.""" Tag.__init__(self, self.ROOT_TAG_NAME) if avoidParserProblems \ and not isList(avoidParserProblems): avoidParserProblems = self.PARSER_MASSAGE self.avoidParserProblems = avoidParserProblems SGMLParser.__init__(self) self.quoteStack = [] self.hidden = 1 self.reset() if hasattr(text, 'read'): #It's a file-type object. text = text.read() if text: self.feed(text) if initialTextIsEverything: self.done() def __getattr__(self, methodName): """This method routes method call requests to either the SGMLParser superclass or the Tag superclass, depending on the method name.""" if methodName.find('start_') == 0 or methodName.find('end_') == 0 \ or methodName.find('do_') == 0: return SGMLParser.__getattr__(self, methodName) elif methodName.find('__') != 0: return Tag.__getattr__(self, methodName) else: raise AttributeError def feed(self, text): if self.avoidParserProblems: for fix, m in self.avoidParserProblems: text = fix.sub(m, text) SGMLParser.feed(self, text) def done(self): """Called when you're done parsing, so that the unclosed tags can be correctly processed.""" self.endData() #NEW while self.currentTag.name != self.ROOT_TAG_NAME: self.popTag() def reset(self): SGMLParser.reset(self) self.currentData = [] self.currentTag = None self.tagStack = [] self.pushTag(self) def popTag(self): tag = self.tagStack.pop() # Tags with just one string-owning child get the child as a # 'string' property, so that soup.tag.string is shorthand for # soup.tag.contents[0] if len(self.currentTag.contents) == 1 and \ isinstance(self.currentTag.contents[0], NavigableText): self.currentTag.string = self.currentTag.contents[0] #print "Pop", tag.name if self.tagStack: self.currentTag = self.tagStack[-1] return self.currentTag def pushTag(self, tag): #print "Push", tag.name if self.currentTag: self.currentTag.append(tag) self.tagStack.append(tag) self.currentTag = self.tagStack[-1] def endData(self): currentData = ''.join(self.currentData) if currentData: if not currentData.strip(): if '\n' in currentData: currentData = '\n' else: currentData = ' ' c = NavigableString if type(currentData) == types.UnicodeType: c = NavigableUnicodeString o = c(currentData) o.setup(self.currentTag, self.previous) if self.previous: self.previous.next = o self.previous = o self.currentTag.contents.append(o) self.currentData = [] def _popToTag(self, name, inclusivePop=True): """Pops the tag stack up to and including the most recent instance of the given tag. If inclusivePop is false, pops the tag stack up to but *not* including the most recent instqance of the given tag.""" if name == self.ROOT_TAG_NAME: return numPops = 0 mostRecentTag = None for i in range(len(self.tagStack) - 1, 0, -1): if name == self.tagStack[i].name: numPops = len(self.tagStack) - i break if not inclusivePop: numPops = numPops - 1 for i in range(0, numPops): mostRecentTag = self.popTag() return mostRecentTag def _smartPop(self, name): """We need to pop up to the previous tag of this type, unless one of this tag's nesting reset triggers comes between this tag and the previous tag of this type, OR unless this tag is a generic nesting trigger and another generic nesting trigger comes between this tag and the previous tag of this type. Examples:

FooBar

should pop to 'p', not 'b'.

FooBar

should pop to 'table', not 'p'.

Foo

Bar

should pop to 'tr', not 'p'.

FooBar

should pop to 'p', not 'b'.

    • *
    • * should pop to 'ul', not the first 'li'.
  • ** should pop to 'table', not the first 'tr' tag should implicitly close the previous tag within the same
    ** should pop to 'tr', not the first 'td' """ nestingResetTriggers = self.NESTABLE_TAGS.get(name) isNestable = nestingResetTriggers != None isResetNesting = self.RESET_NESTING_TAGS.has_key(name) popTo = None inclusive = True for i in range(len(self.tagStack) - 1, 0, -1): p = self.tagStack[i] if (not p or p.name == name) and not isNestable: #Non-nestable tags get popped to the top or to their #last occurance. popTo = name break if (nestingResetTriggers != None and p.name in nestingResetTriggers) \ or (nestingResetTriggers == None and isResetNesting and self.RESET_NESTING_TAGS.has_key(p.name)): #If we encounter one of the nesting reset triggers #peculiar to this tag, or we encounter another tag #that causes nesting to reset, pop up to but not #including that tag. popTo = p.name inclusive = False break p = p.parent if popTo: self._popToTag(popTo, inclusive) def unknown_starttag(self, name, attrs, selfClosing=0): #print "Start tag %s" % name if self.quoteStack: #This is not a real tag. #print "<%s> is not real!" % name attrs = ''.join(map(lambda(x, y): ' %s="%s"' % (x, y), attrs)) self.handle_data('<%s%s>' % (name, attrs)) return self.endData() if not name in self.SELF_CLOSING_TAGS and not selfClosing: self._smartPop(name) tag = Tag(name, attrs, self.currentTag, self.previous) if self.previous: self.previous.next = tag self.previous = tag self.pushTag(tag) if selfClosing or name in self.SELF_CLOSING_TAGS: self.popTag() if name in self.QUOTE_TAGS: #print "Beginning quote (%s)" % name self.quoteStack.append(name) self.literal = 1 def unknown_endtag(self, name): if self.quoteStack and self.quoteStack[-1] != name: #This is not a real end tag. #print " is not real!" % name self.handle_data('' % name) return self.endData() self._popToTag(name) if self.quoteStack and self.quoteStack[-1] == name: self.quoteStack.pop() self.literal = (len(self.quoteStack) > 0) def handle_data(self, data): self.currentData.append(data) def handle_pi(self, text): "Propagate processing instructions right through." self.handle_data("" % text) def handle_comment(self, text): "Propagate comments right through." self.handle_data("" % text) def handle_charref(self, ref): "Propagate char refs right through." self.handle_data('&#%s;' % ref) def handle_entityref(self, ref): "Propagate entity refs right through." self.handle_data('&%s;' % ref) def handle_decl(self, data): "Propagate DOCTYPEs and the like right through." self.handle_data('' % data) def parse_declaration(self, i): """Treat a bogus SGML declaration as raw data. Treat a CDATA declaration as regular data.""" j = None if self.rawdata[i:i + 9] == '', i) if k == -1: k = len(self.rawdata) self.handle_data(self.rawdata[i + 9:k]) j = k + 3 else: try: j = SGMLParser.parse_declaration(self, i) except SGMLParseError: toHandle = self.rawdata[i:] self.handle_data(toHandle) j = i + len(toHandle) return j class BeautifulSoup(BeautifulStoneSoup): """This parser knows the following facts about HTML: * Some tags have no closing tag and should be interpreted as being closed as soon as they are encountered. * The text inside some tags (ie. 'script') may contain tags which are not really part of the document and which should be parsed as text, not tags. If you want to parse the text as tags, you can always fetch it and parse it explicitly. * Tag nesting rules: Most tags can't be nested at all. For instance, the occurance of a

    tag should implicitly close the previous

    tag.

    Para1

    Para2 should be transformed into:

    Para1

    Para2 Some tags can be nested arbitrarily. For instance, the occurance of a

    tag should _not_ implicitly close the previous
    tag. Alice said:
    Bob said:
    Blah should NOT be transformed into: Alice said:
    Bob said:
    Blah Some tags can be nested, but the nesting is reset by the interposition of other tags. For instance, a
    , but not close a tag in another table.
    BlahBlah should be transformed into:
    BlahBlah but, Blah
    Blah should NOT be transformed into Blah
    Blah Differing assumptions about tag nesting rules are a major source of problems with the BeautifulSoup class. If BeautifulSoup is not treating as nestable a tag your page author treats as nestable, try ICantBelieveItsBeautifulSoup before writing your own subclass.""" SELF_CLOSING_TAGS = buildTagMap(None, ['br' , 'hr', 'input', 'img', 'meta', 'spacer', 'link', 'frame', 'base']) QUOTE_TAGS = {'script': None} #According to the HTML standard, each of these inline tags can #contain another tag of the same type. Furthermore, it's common #to actually use these tags this way. NESTABLE_INLINE_TAGS = ['span', 'font', 'q', 'object', 'bdo', 'sub', 'sup', 'center'] #According to the HTML standard, these block tags can contain #another tag of the same type. Furthermore, it's common #to actually use these tags this way. NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['blockquote', 'div', 'fieldset', 'ins', 'del'] #Lists can contain other lists, but there are restrictions. NESTABLE_LIST_TAGS = { 'ol' : [], 'ul' : [], 'li' : ['ul', 'ol'], 'dl' : [], 'dd' : ['dl'], 'dt' : ['dl'] } #Tables can contain other tables, but there are restrictions. NESTABLE_TABLE_TAGS = {'table' : [], 'tr' : ['table', 'tbody', 'tfoot', 'thead'], 'td' : ['tr'], 'th' : ['tr'], } NON_NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['address', 'form', 'p', 'pre'] #If one of these tags is encountered, all tags up to the next tag of #this type are popped. RESET_NESTING_TAGS = buildTagMap(None, NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS, 'noscript', NON_NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS, NESTABLE_LIST_TAGS, NESTABLE_TABLE_TAGS) NESTABLE_TAGS = buildTagMap([], NESTABLE_INLINE_TAGS, NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS, NESTABLE_LIST_TAGS, NESTABLE_TABLE_TAGS) class ICantBelieveItsBeautifulSoup(BeautifulSoup): """The BeautifulSoup class is oriented towards skipping over common HTML errors like unclosed tags. However, sometimes it makes errors of its own. For instance, consider this fragment: FooBar This is perfectly valid (if bizarre) HTML. However, the BeautifulSoup class will implicitly close the first b tag when it encounters the second 'b'. It will think the author wrote "FooBar", and didn't close the first 'b' tag, because there's no real-world reason to bold something that's already bold. When it encounters '' it will close two more 'b' tags, for a grand total of three tags closed instead of two. This can throw off the rest of your document structure. The same is true of a number of other tags, listed below. It's much more common for someone to forget to close (eg.) a 'b' tag than to actually use nested 'b' tags, and the BeautifulSoup class handles the common case. This class handles the not-co-common case: where you can't believe someone wrote what they did, but it's valid HTML and BeautifulSoup screwed up by assuming it wouldn't be. If this doesn't do what you need, try subclassing this class or BeautifulSoup, and providing your own list of NESTABLE_TAGS.""" I_CANT_BELIEVE_THEYRE_NESTABLE_INLINE_TAGS = \ ['em', 'big', 'i', 'small', 'tt', 'abbr', 'acronym', 'strong', 'cite', 'code', 'dfn', 'kbd', 'samp', 'strong', 'var', 'b', 'big'] I_CANT_BELIEVE_THEYRE_NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS = ['noscript'] NESTABLE_TAGS = buildTagMap([], BeautifulSoup.NESTABLE_TAGS, I_CANT_BELIEVE_THEYRE_NESTABLE_BLOCK_TAGS, I_CANT_BELIEVE_THEYRE_NESTABLE_INLINE_TAGS) class BeautifulSOAP(BeautifulStoneSoup): """This class will push a tag with only a single string child into the tag's parent as an attribute. The attribute's name is the tag name, and the value is the string child. An example should give the flavor of the change: baz => baz You can then access fooTag['bar'] instead of fooTag.barTag.string. This is, of course, useful for scraping structures that tend to use subelements instead of attributes, such as SOAP messages. Note that it modifies its input, so don't print the modified version out. I'm not sure how many people really want to use this class; let me know if you do. Mainly I like the name.""" def popTag(self): if len(self.tagStack) > 1: tag = self.tagStack[-1] parent = self.tagStack[-2] parent._getAttrMap() if (isinstance(tag, Tag) and len(tag.contents) == 1 and isinstance(tag.contents[0], NavigableText) and not parent.attrMap.has_key(tag.name)): parent[tag.name] = tag.contents[0] BeautifulStoneSoup.popTag(self) #Enterprise class names! It has come to our attention that some people #think the names of the Beautiful Soup parser classes are too silly #and "unprofessional" for use in enterprise screen-scraping. We feel #your pain! For such-minded folk, the Beautiful Soup Consortium And #All-Night Kosher Bakery recommends renaming this file to #"RobustParser.py" (or, in cases of extreme enterprisitude, #"RobustParserBeanInterface.class") and using the following #enterprise-friendly class aliases: class RobustXMLParser(BeautifulStoneSoup): pass class RobustHTMLParser(BeautifulSoup): pass class RobustWackAssHTMLParser(ICantBelieveItsBeautifulSoup): pass class SimplifyingSOAPParser(BeautifulSOAP): pass ### #By default, act as an HTML pretty-printer. if __name__ == '__main__': import sys soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(sys.stdin.read()) print soup.prettify()