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Parsel is a BSD-licensed Python_ library to extract and remove data from HTML_
and XML_ using XPath_ and CSS_ selectors, optionally combined with
regular expressions_.
Find the Parsel online documentation at https://parsel.readthedocs.org.
Example (open online demo_):
.. code-block:: python
>>> from parsel import Selector
>>> selector = Selector(text=u"""<html>
<body>
<h1>Hello, Parsel!</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://example.com">Link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scrapy.org">Link 2</a></li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>""")
>>> selector.css('h1::text').get()
'Hello, Parsel!'
>>> selector.xpath('//h1/text()').re(r'\w+')
['Hello', 'Parsel']
>>> for li in selector.css('ul > li'):
... print(li.xpath('.//@href').get())
http://example.com
http://scrapy.org
.. _CSS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets .. _HTML: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML .. _open online demo: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/149VFa6Px3wg7S3SEnUqk--TyBrKplxCN#forceEdit=true&sandboxMode=true .. _Python: https://www.python.org/ .. _regular expressions: https://docs.python.org/library/re.html .. _XML: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML .. _XPath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPath