https://github.com/doctorOb/dompy

Javascript DOM objects in python. Parse html like you would in the browser.
https://github.com/doctorOb/dompy

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Javascript DOM objects in python. Parse html like you would in the browser.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/doctorOb/dompy
• Owner: doctorOb
• Created: 2014-07-29T19:34:12.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-09-14T18:18:15.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-08-05T17:08:02.692Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 176 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
dompy

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Javascript DOM objects in python. Parse html like you would in the browser.

The goal is to implement [XML DOM Elements](http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_element.asp) in Python.

BeautifulSoup is a wonderfully robust library for parsing html, and navigating the document tree. However, I found it unpleasent to work with. As someone who's used to manipulating DOM elements in javascript, I wanted the ability to do the same thing in python. 

It (roughly) works as follows:

```

document = dompy.Document(htmlString)

document.getElementsByClassName('td') #get all the TDs in the document

document.getElementById('foo').innerText #get the text in the foo element

```

BeautifulSoup is still used to parse the html document, but the Tags are then iterated over and converted to a Node class

which aims to closely resemble those found in javascript. So, as you'd access the body's className or tagName just as you would in javascript, like:

```

document.body.className

document.getElementsByName('idk')[0].tagName #figure out what tag has been named so vaguely

```