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soupselect. My simple extension to BeautifulSoup that allows you to grab elements using CSS selectors; should be useful for parsing microformats.

Posted 28th February 2007 at 1:47 pm

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6 comments

  1. Fantastic job Simon!

    I was thinking about this exact thing some days ago after seeing that rails provides an assert function that uses css selectors for testing purpose.

    Thanks a lot!

    michele - 28th February 2007 15:04 - #

  2. Why not build this on top of html5lib? Would be pretty cool to have.

    Anne van Kesteren - 28th February 2007 15:20 - #

  3. michele: that's the exact reason I put this together; I'm using it for my unit tests.

    Anne: I'd love to see functionality like this in html5lib, but at the moment I'm just scratching my own itch.

    Simon Willison - 28th February 2007 15:25 - #

  4. FWIW, if someone does implement this with html5lib and is happy to release it under a MIT license, I would be very interested in including the functionality in the examples/ directory of the html5lib standard distribution.

    jgraham - 28th February 2007 17:45 - #

  5. Just a word of warning that BeautifulSoup 3.0.3 is needed for this. BS 2.x still has a large install base so it might trip some people up. Otherwise, awesome.

    anders pearson - 2nd March 2007 15:55 - #

  6. Thanks Anders; I've updated the site to reflect that.

    Simon Willison - 2nd March 2007 17:56 - #

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