PyQuery: a jQuery-like library for Python
PyQuery allows you to make jQuery-style CSS-selector queries on XML/HTML documents. The API is intended to match jQuery's API whenever possible, though it has been made more Pythonic where appropriate.
This project is a fork of the original PyQuery developed by Olivier Lauzanne in 2008; it is maintained by David Schoonover. Feedback and bug reports are both very welcome over on github.
Quickstart
You can use the PyQuery class to load an xml document from a string, a lxml document, from a file or from an url:
>>> from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
>>> from lxml import etree
>>> import urllib
>>> d = pq("<html></html>")
>>> d = pq(etree.fromstring("<html></html>"))
>>> d = pq(url='http://google.com/')
>>> # d = pq(url='http://google.com/', opener=lambda url: urllib.urlopen(url).read())
>>> d = pq(filename=path_to_html_file)
Now d is like the $ object in jQuery:
>>> d("#hello")
[<p#hello.hello>]
>>> p = d("#hello")
>>> print(p.html())
Hello world !
>>> p.html("you know <a href='http://python.org/'>Python</a> rocks")
[<p#hello.hello>]
>>> print(p.html())
you know <a href="http://python.org/">Python</a> rocks
>>> print(p.text())
you know Python rocks
You can use some of the pseudo classes that are available in jQuery but that
are not standard in css such as :first, :last, :even, :odd, :eq,
:lt, :gt, :checked, :selected, and :file.
>>> d('p:first')
[<p#hello.hello>]
Notes
- PyQuery uses lxml for fast XML and HTML manipulation.
- This is not a library to produce or interact with JavaScript code. If that's what you need, check out