Convert a HTML webpage to JSON data using a template defined in JSON.
This package is available on PyPi. Just use pip install -U html2json to install it. Then you can import it using from html2json import collect.
The method is collect(html, template). html is the HTML of page loaded as string, and template is the JSON of template loaded as Python objects.
Note that the HTML must contain the root node, like <html>...</html> or <div>...</div>.
keyName: [selector, attr, [listOfRegexes]].
selector is a CSS selector (supported by lxml).
null, the root node itself is matched.null is returned.attr matches the attribute value. It can be null to match either the inner text or the outer text when the inner text is empty.[listOfRegexes] supports two forms of regex operations. The operations with in the list are executed sequentially.
s/regex/replacement/g. g is optional for multiple replacements./regex/.For example:
{
"Color": ["head link:nth-of-type(1)", "href", ["/\\w+(?=\\.css)/"]],
}
{
"Cover": {
"URL": [".cover img", "src", []],
"Number of Favorites": [".cover .favorites", "value", []]
},
}
keyName: [subRoot, subTemplate] can be used.
subRoot a CSS selector of the new root for each sub entry.subTemplate is a sub-template for each entry, recursively.For example, the previous example can be simplified as follow.
{
"Cover": [".cover", {
"URL": ["img", "src", []],
"Number of Favorites": [".favorites", "value", []]
}],
}
keyName: [[subRoot, subTemplate]]. Please note the difference (surrounding [ and ]) from the previous syntax above.
subRoot is the CSS selector of the new root for each sub entry.subTemplate is the sub-template for each entry, recursively.For example:
{
"Comments": [[".comments", {
"From": [".from", null, []],
"Content": [".content", null, []],
"Photos": [["img", {
"URL": ["", "src", []]
}]]
}]]
}
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Parsing HTML to JSON
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