parse a table in HTML page.

[antonio_wn8]

Hi all,
I have a need to read and parse a table in HTML page.

I’m using the following script:

http://trac.davidgrant.ca/browser/src/python/misc/siteuptime/TableParser.py

It works fine aside from link in href.

Example:

String to parse:
<tr><td><a href='vaffa.htm l'>elog</a></td><td>normal text</td></tr>

Output:
[[['elog', 'normal text']]]

as you can see it misses the info about href...
how can get this information 'vaffa.html'?

thanks,
Antonella

[Thomas Guettler]

Re: parse a table in HTML page.

Have you looked at beautiful soup?

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

antonio_wn8 schrieb:

Hi all,
I have a need to read and parse a table in HTML page.
>
I’m using the following script:

http://trac.davidgrant.ca/browser/src/python/misc/siteuptime/TableParser.py

>
It works fine aside from link in href.
>
Example:
>
String to parse:
<tr><td><a href='vaffa.htm l'>elog</a></td><td>normal text</td></tr>
>
Output:
[[['elog', 'normal text']]]
>
as you can see it misses the info about href...
how can get this information 'vaffa.html'?

--
Thomas Guettler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/
E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de

[Stefan Behnel]

Re: parse a table in HTML page.

antonio_wn8 wrote:

I have a need to read and parse a table in HTML page.
>
I’m using the following script:

http://trac.davidgrant.ca/browser/src/python/misc/siteuptime/TableParser.py

>
It works fine aside from link in href.
>
Example:
>
String to parse:
<tr><td><a href='vaffa.htm l'>elog</a></td><td>normal text</td></tr>
>
Output:
[[['elog', 'normal text']]]

You should try lxml.html. It gives you various tools like XPath to look for
specific elements and helper functions to find the links in an HTML document.

http://codespeak.net/lxml/

Stefan