Soupy is a wrapper around BeautifulSoup that makes it easier to build complex queries when wrangling web data.
Here's an example of a Soupy query.
from soupy import Soupy, Q
html = """
<div id="main">
<div>The web is messy</div>
and full of traps
<div>but Soupy loves you</div>
</div>"""
print(Soupy(html).find(id='main').children
.each(Q.text.strip()) # extract text from each node, trim whitespace
.filter(len) # remove empty strings
.val()) # dump out of Soupy
# ['The web is messy', 'and full of traps', 'but Soupy loves you']The same query using BeautifulSoup:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, NavigableString
html = """
<div id="main">
<div>The web is messy</div>
and full of traps
<div>but Soupy loves you</div>
</div>"""
result = []
for node in BeautifulSoup(html).find(id='main').children:
if isinstance(node, NavigableString):
text = node.strip()
else:
text = node.text.strip()
if len(text):
result.append(text)
print(result)For more information, see the Soupy Documentation
pip install soupy
six and BeautifulSoup4
Soupy is supported on Python 2.6+ and 3.3+