Problems with parsing xml
What you need is: root = ET.fromstring(data) and omit the line of: tree = ET.parse('bikeStations.xml') As the response from connection.read() returns String, you can directly read the XML string by using fromstring method, you can read more from HERE....
lxml not parsing unicode properly for HTML
It's just an encoding issue. It looks like you're using requests, which is good, because it does this work for you. First, requests guesses at the encoding, which you can access with r.encoding. For that page, requests guessed at utf-8. You could do: data = r.content.decode('UTF-8') # or data =...
Append parent to xml
The lxml has the function parentElem.insert(position, new_element) that allows you to insert a new child element under its parent. You can find an example here and here (Section Elements are lists)
Xpath extract current node content including all child node
To get XML node's content markup (sometimes referred to as "innerXML") , you can start by selecting the node (instead of selecting the child or the text content) : from lxml import html import lxml.etree as le input = "<pre>abcdefg<b>b1b2b3</b></pre>" tree = html.fromstring(input) node = tree.xpath("//pre")[0] then combine the text...
Get value using lxml
python,html,html-parsing,lxml,lxml.html
This is called the .tail of an element: from lxml.html import fromstring data = """ <div class="txt-block"> <h4 class="inline">Aspect Ratio:</h4> 2.35 : 1 </div> """ root = fromstring(data) print root.xpath('//h4[@class="inline"]')[0].tail Prints 2.35 : 1. As an alternative, you can get the following text sibling of the h4 element: root.xpath('//h4[@class="inline"]/following-sibling::text()')[0] Also,...
Python: Scrape Data from Web after Inputing Info
python,web-scraping,html-parsing,lxml,lxml.html
The main issue was that you needed to make a GET request, not a POST. Plus, @Paul Lo is right about the date ranges. For the sake of example, I'm querying from 2010 to 2015. Also, you have to pass query parameters as strings. 00 evaluated to 0, requests converted...
How do I do thread-safe python XML validation?
python,xml,multithreading,validation,lxml
On linux, a forked process gets a copy-on-write view of the parent's memory. You can leverage this to process a large object with little overhead and without changing the object in the parent's memory space. After creating the object, create pipes for communication and fork a child to do the...
XML scanning for value
The proper way to access nodes in namespace is by passing prefix-namespace URL mapping as additional argument to xpath() method, for example : ns = {'tes' : 'http://www.blah.com/client/servlet'} source_type = sourceobject.xpath('//tes:actions/tes:type/text()', namespaces=ns) Or, another way which is less recommended, by literally ignoring namespaces using xpath function local-name() : source_type =...
Scraping IMDb Review Page with lxml and requests package
You can use the following line to extract the number of reviews: number_of_reviews = int(reviewPage.xpath("//div[@id = 'tn15content']/table[2]/tr/td[2]")[0].text_content().split()[0]) You can even use your own code if you modify it a little bit. The problem lies in your XPath. Get rid of the tbody part and it works. number_of_reviews = reviewPage.xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div/layer/div[4]/div[3]/div[3]/div[3]/table[2]/tr/td[2]")[0] You...
Merging xpath generated lists, Python, lxml
Using zip, you will get a list (or an iterator if you use Python 3.x) of tuples: records = zip( tree.xpath("/rss/channel/item/title/text()"), tree.xpath("/rss/channel/item/link/text()"), tree.xpath("/rss/channel/item/pubDate/text()") ) # records => [ # ('Klistermärkesuppsättning i Trollhättan', # 'https://www.nordfront.se/klistermarkesuppsattning-trollhattan.smr', # 'Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:00:37 +0000'), # ('Dror Feiler vill inte betala sina böter –...
crawling imdb database using python and lxml
The following function lxml.html.document_fromstring(string) Parses a document from the given string. This always creates a correct HTML document, which means the parent node is , and there is a body and possibly a head. hxs = lxml.html.document_fromstring(requests.get("http://www.imdb.com/title/" + id).content) You can see the html using this code. print lxml.html.tostring(hxs) Considering...
How to add spaces between nodes when using string() on a tree in XPath
You can try with itertext() method, that iterates over all text content: from lxml import etree root = etree.XML('<root><div>abc</div><div>def</div></root>') print(' '.join(e for e in root.itertext())) It yields: abc def ...
type error saving lxml elements in shelve
Only picklable data types can be stored in a shelf -- in particular, types added by C extensions need explicit support to be picklable; lxml has not as of this date had that support written. Unless you're willing to provide a patch to upstream lxml and shepherd it through merge...
Close open tags without wrapping in
Wrap everything in a throwaway tag, then get the outermost elements inner contents, like so: def clean_custom_title(self): title = self.cleaned_data.get('custom_title') if title: title = "<foo>%s</foo>"%title title = lxml.html.fromstring(title) # title = lxml.some_function(title) # strip <foo> in a 'proper' way title = lxml.etree.tostring(title) title = title[5:-6] # This is a hack...
Extracting between specific tag
You could use regex on the script to find the quoteDataObj variable and load its contents with JSON. Example: import re import json #...your code... content = wgetUrl(url) matches = re.findall(r'quoteDataObj\s\=\s\[(\{.+\})\]', content) if len(matches) > 0: python_dict = json.loads(matches[0]) Output: {u'altSymbol': u'CL/M5', u'assetType': u'DERIVATIVE', u'change': u'-1.39', u'code': 0, u'curmktstatus': u'REG_MKT',...
how to use lxml find all the src tags and replace them
python,html,html-parsing,lxml,lxml.html
At least, you need to assign the result of replace to the body: for ss in src: body = body.replace(str(ss), '') print body Though, I personally don't like the approach. Better find all tags that have src attribute and set the attribute value to an empty string: for element in...
How can I set up lxml and pypy on Yosemite?
PyPy does not work with lxml (at least not very well, even if it accidentally does), due to lxml being built on top of Cython which uses CPython C API bindings. Consider using lxml-cffi instead https://github.com/amauryfa/lxml/tree/cffi
Pandas read_html equivalent for a lxml table
I am able to now answer my own question and maybe this can be of assistance to others. I tried modifying the read_html source code in pandas without much success because of some recognition issues. Nonetheless the answer is much simpler than you might think. >>>import pandas as pd >>>import...
Print Soap Body data using lxml
I dumped your xml into variable root, here is how you can get that piece of XML: import lxml.etree as ET createCase=root.find('.//cre:createCase',namespaces=root.nsmap) print ET.tostring(createCase, pretty_print=True) prints this: <cre:createCase xmlns:cre="http://www.code.com/abc/V1/createCase" xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/30.xsd" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <cre:Request> <cre:ServiceAttributesGrp> <cre:MinorVer>?</cre:MinorVer>...
Print only not null values
You are getting empty lists, not None objects. You are testing for the wrong thing here; you see [], while if a Python null was being returned you'd see None instead. The Element.xpath() method will always return a list object, and it can be empty. Use a boolean test: percentage...
Extracting data from webpage using lxml XPath in Python
python,xpath,web-crawler,lxml,python-requests
I've had a look at the html source of that page and the content of the element with the id chapterMenu is empty. I think your problem is that it is filled using javascript and javascript will not be automatically evaluated just by reading the html with lxml.html You might...
Difference between a/img/..//text() and a//text()
The difference between a/img/..//text() and a//text() is that the first will return you text nodes ONLY from a elements with img elements as children, whereas the second will return text nodes from a elements irrespective of whether they have img elements as children. Put another way, a/img/..//text() could equally be...
Why won't lxml strip section tags?
Why is this the case? It isn't. The documention says the following: Note that this will not delete the element (or ElementTree root element) that you passed even if it matches. It will only treat its descendants. So: >>> tree = etree.fromstring('<section> outer <section> inner </section> </section>') >>> etree.strip_tags(tree,...
How to extract efficientely content from an xml with python?
python,xml,python-2.7,pandas,lxml
There are several things wrong here. (Asking questions on selecting a library is against the rules here, so I'm ignoring that part of the question). You need to pass in a file handle, not a file name. That is: y = BeautifulSoup(open(x)) You need to tell BeautifulSoup that it's dealing...
Problems grabbing data with xpath and lxml in Python
As far as I can see, the correct URL is http://data.treasury.gov/feed.svc/DailyTreasuryYieldCurveRateData?$filter=month%28NEW_DATE%29%20eq%201%20and%20year%28NEW_DATE%29%20eq%202015 whereas in your code there is (no ? after Data) http://data.treasury.gov/feed.svc/DailyTreasuryYieldCurveRateData$filter=month%28NEW_DATE%29%20eq%201%20and%20year%28NEW_DATE%29%20eq%202015 That's why your code currently produces the following XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?> <error...
Set lxml as default BeautifulSoup parser
python,html,beautifulsoup,html-parsing,lxml
According to the Specifying the parser to use documentation page: The first argument to the BeautifulSoup constructor is a string or an open filehandle–the markup you want parsed. The second argument is how you’d like the markup parsed. If you don’t specify anything, you’ll get the best HTML parser that’s...
Python 3.4 : LXML web scraping
Browsers add in missing HTML elements that the HTML specification states are part of the model. lxml does not add those in. The most common such element is the <tbody> element. Your document has no such element, but Chrome does and they put it in your XPath. Another such an...
Parsing xpath with python
How about using .text_content()? .text_content(): Returns the text content of the element, including the text content of its children, with no markup. table = tree.xpath('//table/tr') for item in table: print ' '.join(item.text_content().split()) join()+split() here help to replace multiple spaces with a single one. It prints: February 20, 2015 9:00 PM...
Installing lxml on RHEL for Python 2.7
The short answer is, not easily. I'm assuming you're using RHEL5 since you mentioned python 2.4 was in the repo. The problem is that lxml is not a pure python library, it is a rather thin wrapper around two C/C++ libraries, libxml2 and libxslt. This means that any RPM installer...
Namespace argument in lxml parsing
You need to use the namespace prefix while querying. like node.xpath('//html:body', namespaces={'html': 'http://...'}) or you can use the .nsmap node.xpath('//html:body', namespaces=node.nsmap) This assumes all the namespaces are defined on tag pointed by node. This is usually true for most xml documents....
Using lxml in Python, I need to replace “RNA” with RNA in input xml file. Code below
You are setting an XML mark in element .text, so when writing to XML it is interpreted as text, not markup, and characters are escaped with &...;. What you want to do is: divide .text into three parts: before new tag, in new tag, after new tag add new tag...
Obtaining position info when parsing HTML in Python
python,html,parsing,lxml,html5lib
After some additional research and more carefully reviewing of the source code of html5lib, I discovered that html5lib.tokenizer.HTMLTokenizer does retain partial position information. By "partial," I mean that it knows the line and column of the last character of a given token. Unfortunately, it does not retain the position of...
Creating xsd document from file download
Use .content which is type bytes >>> from lxml import etree >>> xsd_url = 'https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/premiere-avails/movie.xsd.xml' >>> node = etree.fromstring(requests.get(xsd_url).content)) The problem is that your xml file specifies an encoding, and therefore it is the xml parser's job to decode this encoding. But your code uses .text, which asks requests to...
Join consecutive HTML tags of the same kind, same CSS class
The following stylesheet: XSLT 1.0 <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <xsl:template match="p"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/> <span class="{span[1]/@class}"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </span> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="br"> <xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:template>...
Fix the location of attributes in etree.Element
As for your first question, this seems to be a good answer. As for your second question, the "tostring()" method follows this standard (as per the documentation)....
Convert XML to string to find length
To serialize to a unicode string (thus, getting length in characters) in Python 2: root_str = etree.tostring(root_el, encoding=unicode) root_len_chars = len(root_str) To encode that unicode string in UTF-8, and get the length in bytes (for that encoding): root_len_bytes = len(root_str.encode('utf-8')) ...
Scrape data using lxml python
findtext() would be handy in this case: league = tree.findtext("//legend[@align='center']/a)") ...
How to merge two different paths in a XML file?
python,xml,parsing,xml-parsing,lxml
So there wasn't too much detail to go on here, but this at least give the correct output: from lxml import etree root = etree.fromstring(xml) replace_set = {} for node in root.iter("Node"): if 'NodeRef' in [c.tag for c in node]: # This is a <Node> type with child element <NodeRef>....
XSLT template does not apply to all elements using lxml
That really seems odd - unless you realize what happens. This has nothing to do with how lxml performs XSLT tranformations, as far as I can see. It's just that lxml.etree.tostring() expects an object containing well-formed HTML or XML as input. You don't hand it well-formed markup: <?xml version="1.0"?> <h1>book</h1>...
python install lxml on mac os 10.10.1
python,osx,python-2.7,scrapy,lxml
I had that problem, and what I did is: installed all xcode (2.8GB) from apple store. to be sure that the installation is successfully finished: open terminal and typed xcode-select -p you should get something like this: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer now you need to install command line tools. try to type gcc...
Case insensitive xpath [duplicate]
You can use the following XPATH: //locales/locale[translate(@name,'nl','NL')='NL-NL'] Or, if there are just two values, you can use even this: //locales/locale[@name='NL-NL' or @name = 'nl-NL'] ...
LXML namespace in sub-elements formatted like XML spreadsheet
python,xml,excel,lxml,spreadsheet
If you need to use a namespace for an attribute of an Element or SubElement you can't pass it using the **kwargs (**_extra) syntax, as that does only allow to specify attributes with a name that is a valid python identifier. So in this case you need to use the...
Combine multiple tags with lxml
I have managed to solve my own problem. for p in self.tree.xpath('//body/p'): if p.tail is None: # some conditions specifically for my doc children = p.getchildren() if len(children)>1: for child in children: #if other stuffs present, break if child.tag!='strong' or child.tail is not None: break else: # If not break,...
Python - ccsselect with spaces
To match div with photo and cover class, use div.photo.cover. img = page.cssselect('div.photo.cover div.outer a') Instead of thinkg class="photo cover" as class attribute with photo cover as a value, think it as a class attribute with photo and cover as values....
Saving spider results to database
python,python-3.x,sqlalchemy,web-scraping,lxml
As far as I understand, this is a Scrapy-specific question. If so, you just need to activate your pipeline in settings.py: ITEM_PIPELINES = { 'myproj.pipeline.NordfrontPipeline': 100 } This would let the engine know to send the crawled items to the pipeline (see control flow): If we are not talking about...
URL with Ukrainian characters giving UnicodeEncodeError
python,character-encoding,lxml
Your issue is that you have non-ASCII characters within your URL path which must be properly encoded using urllib.parse.quote(string) in Python 3 or urllib.quote(string) in Python 2. # Python 3 import urllib.parse url = 'http://www.lingvo.ua' + urllib.parse.quote('/uk/Interpret/uk-ru/вікно') # Python 2 import urllib url = 'http://www.lingvo.ua' + urllib.quote(u'/uk/Interpret/uk-ru/вікно'.encode('UTF-8')) NOTE: According to...
TypeError: unhashable type: 'list' while posting data
The lxml tree.xpath() method returned a list object. You cannot use a list object as a dictionary key. If you meant to retrieve the first (perhaps only) result of the XPath query, then do so explicitly: post_data={'A': 'B', token[0]: '1'} If you needed to use all results of the query...
Parse HTML from local file
python,html,google-app-engine,lxml
Your working directory is the base of your app directory. So if your app is organized like: app.yaml nl/ home.html You can then read your file at nl/html.html (assuming you haven't changed your working directory)....
SOLVED: Installing lxml, libxml2, libxslt on Windows 8.1
python,windows,module,installation,lxml
I was able to fix the installation with the following steps. I hope others find this helpful. My installation of "pip" was working fine before the problem. I went to the Windows command line and made sure that "wheel" was installed. C:\Python34>python -m pip install wheel Requirement already satisfied (use...
Scraping data python lxml
Use xpath to select the text explicitly //legend[@align='center']/a/text() This plugin for chrome helps a lot when writing lxml queries Xpath Helper...
python - find xpath of element containing string
You can use getpath() to get xpath from element, for example : import requests from lxml import html page = requests.get("http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/") root = html.fromstring(page.text) tree = root.getroottree() result = root.xpath('//*[. = "XML"]') for r in result: print(tree.getpath(r)) Output : /html/body/div[3]/div/ul/li[10] /html/body/div[3]/div/ul/li[10]/a /html/body/div[4]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div/ul/li[2] /html/body/div[5]/div/div[6]/h3 /html/body/div[6]/div/div[4]/h3 /html/body/div[7]/div/div[4]/h3 ...
lxml - how to get minimal xpath of element?
python,xpath,xml-parsing,html-parsing,lxml
It is not possible to make lxml generate any xpath expression except the "absolute" one most importantly because there could be enormous amount of xpath expressions pointing to an element. There are also several important points raised here: XPath generator As far as I understand from the firebug documentation and...
lxml — how to isolate element from children
python,html,xml,html-parsing,lxml
You could use the remove method to remove the children: import lxml.html as LH code = '''<a foo="bar">some text<b></b> here <c><d>Hi</d></c> and here</a>''' root = LH.fromstring(code) print(root.text_content()) # some text here Hi and here for elt in root: root.remove(elt) print(LH.tostring(root)) yields <a foo="bar">some text</a> Note, however, that not all text...
Issue with parsing html with lxml by xpath
python,parsing,xpath,lxml,lxml.html
You can make a shorter and more reliable xpath expression and you have to use namespaces: tree.xpath('//text[@class="bar-text-label"]/text()', namespaces={'n': 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'}) Alternative solution could be to use selenium browser automation package: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC driver = webdriver.Firefox()...
lxml startswith for xpath
You can use this syntax: /locale[starts-with(@name, "en")] ...
Find all HTML and non-HTML encoded URLs in string
python,html,regex,beautifulsoup,lxml
I upvoted because it triggered my curiosity. There seems to be a library called twitter-text-python, that parses Twitter posts to detect both urls and hrefs. Otherwise, I would go with the combination regex + lxml
Python and lxml.html get_element_by_id output questions
python,html,html-parsing,lxml,lxml.html
I'm afraid lxml.html cannot handle parsing this particular HTML source. It parses the h3 tag with id="productDetails" as an empty element (and this is in a default "recover" mode): <h3 class="productDescription2" id="productDetails" itemprop="description"></h3> Switch to BeautifulSoup with html5lib parser (it is extremely lenient): from urllib2 import urlopen from bs4 import...
how to install lxml with pypy in virtualenv
I had a similar problem. I got it working by running sudo apt-get install python-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev and then pip install --upgrade lxml
Issue Parsing a site with lxml and xpath in python
The primary problem here is that the actual document served from the server contains an empty table: <table id="cardtable" class="cardlist"/> The data is filled in after the page loads by the embedded javascript that follows the empty table element: <script> $('#cardtable').dataTable({ "aLengthMenu": [[25, 100, -1], [25, 100, "All"]], "bDeferRender": true,...
python lxml loop through all tags
You could try with iter() function. It will traverse through all the children elements. The comparison of the length is to print only those that has no children: A complete script like this one: from lxml import etree tree = etree.parse('xmlfile') for tag in tree.iter(): if not len(tag): print (tag.tag,...
Parsing XML using LXML and Python
You will end up with different lists as you are looking for different things, but that should be alright. The goal here is not to immediately get the result out of an lxml interface, but get something later that you can then put into a mysql database, yes? If so,...
Parsing forum posts using lxml/python
python,parsing,web-scraping,lxml,lxml.html
Find the element with xpath (not text) and use text_content() method: details = tree.xpath('.//div[contains(@id, "post_message_33583236")]')[0] print(details.text_content()) Prints: With all the talk about raising the minimum wage, I think the real issue is that people are not getting a liveable wage anymore. This applies to many skilled people too in which...
How to set up XPath query for HTML parsing?
It is important to inspect the string returned by page.text and not just rely on the page source as returned by your Chrome browser. Web sites can return different content depending on the User-Agent, and moreover, GUI browsers such as your Chrome browser may change the content by executing JavaScript...
Get inner text from lxml
That's often referred to as "inner xml" rather than "inner text". This is one possible way to get inner xml of an element : import lxml.etree as etree import lxml.html html = "<p>this is <b>the</b> good stuff<p>" tree = lxml.html.fromstring(html) node = tree.xpath("//p")[0] result = node.text + ''.join(etree.tostring(e) for e...
How do I get all content between two html tags in Python?
python,xml,xpath,beautifulsoup,lxml
You can try this way : import lxml.html.soupparser import lxml.html my_html_page = '''...some html markup here...''' root = lxml.html.soupparser.fromstring(my_html_page) for elem in root.xpath("//div[@class='post_body']"): result = elem.text + ''.join(lxml.html.tostring(e, pretty_print=True) for e in elem) print result result variable constructed by combining text nodes within parent <div> with markup of all of...
Python 3.4 : LXML : Parsing Tables
python,python-3.x,datatables,lxml
Rather than use a huge long XPath as generated by Chrome, you can just search for a table with the yfnc_tabledata1 class; there is just the one: >>> tree.xpath("//table[@class='yfnc_tabledata1']") [<Element table at 0x10445e788>] Get to your <td> from there: >>> tree.xpath("//table[@class='yfnc_tabledata1']//td[1]")[0].text_content() 'Period EndingDec 31, 2014Dec 31, 2013Dec 31, 2012\n \n...
Python lxml - find tag block ammend
python,xml,xml-parsing,tags,lxml
You can make an xpath expression to get all products where territory is IE: //product[territory = "IE"] But, you need to handle an empty namespace here: from lxml import etree data = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <package xmlns="http://apple.com/itunes/importer" version="film5.0"> <video> <products> <product> <territory>GB</territory> <cleared_for_sale>true</cleared_for_sale> <wholesale_price_tier>1</wholesale_price_tier> </product> <product>...
How to find text in specific nested tag wih lxml and pyhthon?
Here's my attempt. It gives your desired output for your sample input. I made it tolerant of certain tag changes like div vs. span. import xml.etree.cElementTree as etree # or: from lxml import etree body = etree.parse('test.html').find('body') for aname in body.iterfind('*[@class="aname"]'): cname = aname.find('*[@class="bname"]//a[@class="cname"]') print cname.text # title print cname.get('href')...
Why does am I unable to receive data from only this website?
Provide a User-Agent header and it would work for you: webpage = 'http://www.whosampled.com/search/?q=de+la+soul' page = requests.get(webpage, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'}) Proof: >>> from lxml import html >>> import requests >>> >>> webpage = 'http://www.whosampled.com/search/?q=de+la+soul' >>> page = requests.get(webpage, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0...
how to make a selection?
If you are looking for an XPath-only solution, you could pick off all the pieces of text in the div tag using //text(): import lxml.html as LH doc = LH.parse('data', parser=LH.HTMLParser(encoding='utf-8')) for elt in doc.xpath( '//table[@id="single-stone"]/following-sibling::div/div//text()'): print(elt) yields Гранит Мансуровский продается в готовых изделиях, а также слэбах. Сейчас Мансуровский есть...
LXML - parse td content within tr tag
Use range and format for i in range(1,5): contentA = tree.xpath("//table[@class='yfnc_tabledata1']/tr[1]/td/table/tr[2]/td[{i}]".format(i=i))[0].text_content().strip() print(contentA) Output Total Revenue 31,821,000 30,871,000 29,904,000 for i in range(1,5): contentB = tree.xpath("//table[@class='yfnc_tabledata1']/tr[1]/td/table/tr[3]/td[{i}]".format(i=i))[0].text_content().strip() print(contentB) Output Cost of Revenue 16,447,000 16,106,000 15,685,000 EDIT In [22]: d = {} In [23]: d.setdefault('Revenue', []) Out[23]: [] In [24]: for i in...
Parsing HTML tree in lxml : how can I retrieve the text inside the element?
You can try using xpath function string() which return concatenated value of all text nodes within current element : import lxml.html html = """<h5 class="msg-delivered" style="padding:0;text-rendering:optimizeLegibility;line-height:1.1;margin-bottom:15px;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;font-family:"Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#888888;vertical-align:middle;margin:0;font-size:13px;font-weight:300 !important"> \n<i...
How can I modify the attributes of an SVG file from Python?
You do not set the attribute again, but use its value instead of the elmenet in this line: yes_votes.set(yes_votes, str(int(yes_votes) + 1)) yes_votes contains the content of the attribute and not a reference to the attribute itself. Change it to: element.set( "data-yes", str(int(yes_votes) + 1)) ...
With Xpath, how do you select these elements but not those?
You could use the XPath //div[starts-with(@class,"cl1 ")]; note the space after cl1. For example, In [20]: import lxml.html as LH In [21]: doc = LH.parse('data.html') In [24]: doc.xpath('//div[starts-with(@class,"cl1 ")]') Out[24]: [<Element div at 0x7f0568c68100>, <Element div at 0x7f0568c68158>] In [25]: [LH.tostring(elt) for elt in doc.xpath('//div[starts-with(@class,"cl1 ")]')] Out[25]: ['<div class="cl1 a"></div>\n',...
How can I strip namespaces out of an lxml tree?
python,xml,lxml,xml-namespaces,prefix
One possible way to remove namespace prefix from each element : def strip_ns_prefix(tree): #iterate through only element nodes (skip comment node, text node, etc) : for element in tree.xpath('descendant-or-self::*'): #if element has prefix... if element.prefix: #replace element name with it's local name element.tag = etree.QName(element).localname return tree Another version which...
Python: specifying the namespace in an lxml.etree path
python,xml,svg,lxml,xml-namespaces
Mapping default namespace to None prefix didn't work for me either. You can, however, map it to a normal string prefix and use that prefix in the xpath, the rest of your codes are working without any change : from lxml import etree XHTML_NAMESPACE = "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" XHTML = "{%s}" %...
Parsing XML in Python using LXML
I think this is what you need to get the id from current node referenced by leagues variable : leagueid = leagues.xpath('./id/text()') Above Xpath looks for child node <id> from current <league> node....
how to write the opening of an xml doc in lxml?
You can pass them as arguments to the tostring() method. An example: from lxml import etree root = etree.Element('root') etree.SubElement(root, 'child1') etree.SubElement(root, 'child2') print etree.tostring(root, encoding='UTF-8', xml_declaration=True, doctype='''<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">''') That yields: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"...
Select by xpath knowing only ending of element's attribute
python,xml,xpath,web-scraping,lxml
Try using the contains selector to find the element with an attribute href which contains the word parent //*[contains(@href, 'parent')] or if you are sure about the position of text "parent" you can use the ends-with //*[ends-with(@href, 'parent')] ...
Python - Requests: Correctly Using Params?
python,html,request,lxml,lxml.html
The <input> elements with the name attributes equal to: a, b, c, d, e, f, g(the radio button Daily/Weekly/Monthly) are inside a <form> tag, which has this hidden form field: <input type="hidden" name="s" value="^GSPC" data-rapid_p="11"> That will send a name/value pair to the server just like a regular <input> element....
Insert xml node in specific location
Using etree.SubElement always appends the subelement to the end of the parent item. So instead, to insert a new element at a particular location, use item.insert(pos, subelement): import lxml.etree as etree xml_node = etree.Element("node") item = etree.SubElement(xml_node, 'Item') etree.SubElement(item, 'Name').text = 'Hello' etree.SubElement(item, 'Hero').text = '1' etree.SubElement(item, 'Date').text = '2014-01-01'...
lxml - how to remove element but not it's content?
Consider using copy.deepcopy as suggested in the docs: For example: div_parents = root_element.xpath('//div[div]') for outer_div in div_parents: if len(outer_div.getchildren()) == 1: inner_div = outer_div[0] # Copy the children of innder_div to outer_div for e in inner_div: outer_div.append( copy.deepcopy(e) ) # Remove inner_div from outer_div outer_div.remove(inner_div) Full code used to test:...
Python 2.7 Etree/lxml minimizing [duplicate]
Use method parameter of write method. Value on parameter if html or xml E.g. tree.write("output.xsd", method="html") Also have pretty print parameter which have value True or False e.g. tree.write("output.xsd", method="html", pretty_print=True) Have may parameters: write(self, file, encoding=None, method="xml", pretty_print=False, xml_declaration=None, with_tail=True, standalone=None, compression=0, exclusive=False, with_comments=True, inclusive_ns_prefixes=None) ...
Japanese characters screwing up lxml parsing
I imagine you want: runtime_text = node.xpath(u"//dl/dt[text()='Runtime:' or text()='Laufzeit:' or text()='再生時間：']/following-sibling::dd")[0].text.strip() lxml probably doesn't understand python's unicode literals...
how to get unresolved entities from html attributes using python and lxml
Unescaped character is invalid in HTML, and HTML abstraction model (lxml.etree in this case) only works with valid HTML. So there is no notion of unescaped character after the source HTML loaded to the object model. Given unescaped characters in HTML source, parser will either fails completely, or tries to...
LXML to write in unicode?
Yes you can pass an encoding to etree.tostring method using the encoding parameter: etree.tostring(node, pretty_print=True, encoding='unicode') From the etree.tostring docs: You can also serialise to a Unicode string without declaration by passing the unicode function as encoding (or str in Py3), or the name 'unicode'. This changes the return value...
Python XML parsing, lxml, urllib.request
Per the doc string (see help(ET.parse)), ET.parse expects the first argument to be a file name/path import lxml.etree as ET tree = ET.parse(filename) a file object with open('data.xml') as f: tree = ET.parse(f) a file-like object import io tree = ET.parse(io.BytesIO(data)) a URL using the HTTP or FTP protocol import...
python lxml.html.parse not reading url
Adding some clarification to @michael_stackof's answer. This particular URL would return 403 Forbidden status code if User-Agent header is not supplied. According to the lxml's source code, it uses urllib2.urlopen() without supplying a User-Agent header which results into 403, which results into failed to load HTTP resource error. On the...
lxml: I can't remove a span tag and the text inside
You can try with strip_elements() function, like: from lxml import etree as et parser = et.XMLParser(remove_blank_text=True, recover=True) documentXml=et.parse(html_FileName, parser) for class1Node in documentXml.xpath('//div[@class="class1-text"]'): chineseNode=class1Node.xpath('.//span[@class="class3"]') et.strip_elements(chineseNode[0].getparent(), 'span', with_tail=False) print(et.tostring(documentXml)) It yields: b'<div num="1" class="class1"><div class="class1-text"><span class="class2">\n some english...