API¶

Extractor public API¶

class Extractor¶

keep(xpath)¶

Adds an Xpath expression to keep

Parameters:	xpath (str) – The Xpath expression to add
Returns:	The self instance
Return type:	Extractor

discard(xpath)¶

Adds an Xpath expression to discard

Parameters:	xpath (str) – The Xpath expression to add
Returns:	The self instance
Return type:	Extractor

extract(html_contents, css_contents=None, base_url=None)¶

Extracts the cleaned html tree as a string and only css rules matching the cleaned html tree

Parameters:	html_contents (str) – The HTML contents to parse css_contents (str) – The CSS contents to parse base_url (str) – The base page URL to use for relative to absolute links
Returns:	cleaned HTML contents or (cleaned HTML contents, cleaned CSS contents)
Return type:	str or tuple