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cssselect is a BSD-licensed Python library to parse CSS3 selectors_ and
translate them to XPath 1.0_ expressions.
XPath 1.0_ expressions can be used in lxml_ or another XPath engine to find
the matching elements in an XML or HTML document.
Find the cssselect online documentation at https://cssselect.readthedocs.io.
Quick facts:
on GitHub <https://github.com/scrapy/cssselect>_on PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/cssselect/>_pip install cssselect.. _CSS3 selectors: https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-3/ .. _XPath 1.0: https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/all/ .. _lxml: https://lxml.de/
FAQs
cssselect parses CSS3 Selectors and translates them to XPath 1.0
We found that cssselect demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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