python中的Beautiful Soup
我们前面提到过一个xpath，今天要讲的Beautiful Soup作用类似，它是一个可以从HTML或XML文件中提取数据的Python库。
下面的一段HTML代码将作为例子被多次用到.这是爱丽丝梦游仙境的一段网页源代码的内容(以后内容中简称为爱丽丝的文档):
html_doc = """
<html><head><title>The Dormouse's story</title></head>
<body>
<p class="title"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>
<p class="story">Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were
<a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
<a href="http://example.com/lacie" class="sister" id="link2">Lacie</a> and
<a href="http://example.com/tillie" class="sister" id="link3">Tillie</a>;
and they lived at the bottom of a well.</p>
<p class="story">...</p>
"""
我们要想使用BeautifulSoup解析这段代码，首先要得到一个BeautifulSoup的对象，然后对这个对象进行BeautifulSoup的相关操作。
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc)
首先是引入BeautifulSoup，当然在这之前我们要先进行安装：
pip install beautifulsoup4
然后实例化一个BeautifulSoup对象，打印出这个对象我们可以看到是这样的：
print(soup.prettify())
# <html>
# <head>
# <title>
# The Dormouse's story
# </title>
# </head>
# <body>
# <p class="title">
# <b>
# The Dormouse's story
# </b>
# </p>
# <p class="story">
# Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">
# Elsie
# </a>
# ,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">
# Lacie
# </a>
# and
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link2">
# Tillie
# </a>
# ; and they lived at the bottom of a well.
# </p>
# <p class="story">
# ...
# </p>
# </body>
# </html>
获取到BeautifulSoup对象后，那么有哪些方法可以操作呢？
（1）获取标签内容：
我们可以利用soup加标签名轻松地获取这些标签的内容，如下：
soup.title
# <title>The Dormouse's story</title>
soup.title.name
# u'title'
soup.title.string
# u'The Dormouse's story'
soup.title.parent.name
# u'head'
soup.p
# <p class="title"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>
soup.p['class']
# u'title'
soup.a
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>
soup.find_all('a')
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
soup.find(id="link3")
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>
对于标签，它有两个重要的属性，分别是name和attrs，前者是标签名，后者是属性：
print soup.p.attrs
#{'class': ['title'], 'name': 'dromouse'}
获取属性：
css_soup = BeautifulSoup('<p class="body strikeout"></p>')
css_soup.p['class']
# ["body", "strikeout"]
css_soup = BeautifulSoup('<p class="body"></p>')
css_soup.p['class']
# ["body"]
还可以对这些属性和内容等等进行修改：
soup.p['class']="newClass"
print soup.p
#<p class="newClass" name="dromouse"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>
tag的属性操作方法与字典一样。
（2）获取到标签内容后，想要获取标签里面的文本该怎么办呢？
print soup.p.string
#The Dormouse's story
现在来了解一下搜索方法的细节:
find_all( name , attrs , recursive , text , **kwargs )
find_all()方法搜索当前tag的所有tag子节点,并判断是否符合过滤器的条件。这里有几个例子:
soup.find_all("title")
# [<title>The Dormouse's story</title>]
soup.find_all("p", "title")
# [<p class="title"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>]
soup.find_all("a")
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
soup.find_all(id="link2")
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>]
import re
soup.find(text=re.compile("sisters"))
# u'Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were\n'
find():
find_all()方法将返回文档中符合条件的所有tag,尽管有时候我们只想得到一个结果.比如文档中只有一个<body>标签,那么使用 find_all()方法来查找<body>标签就不太合适,使用find_all方法并设置limit=1参数不如直接使用find()方法.下面两行代码是等价的:
soup.find_all('title', limit=1)
# [<title>The Dormouse's story</title>]
soup.find('title')
# <title>The Dormouse's story</title>
唯一的区别是find_all()方法的返回结果是值包含一个元素的列表,而find()方法直接返回结果。
soup.head.title是tag的名字方法的简写.这个简写的原理就是多次调用当前tag的find()方法:
soup.head.title
# <title>The Dormouse's story</title>
soup.find("head").find("title")
# <title>The Dormouse's story</title>
按CSS搜索。
按照CSS类名搜索tag的功能非常实用,但标识CSS类名的关键字class在Python中是保留字,使用class做参数会导致语法错误.从BeautifulSoup的4.1.1版本开始,可以通过class_参数搜索有指定CSS类名的tag。
soup.find_all("a", class_="sister")
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
get_text():
如果只想得到tag中包含的文本内容,那么可以嗲用get_text()方法,这个方法获取到tag中包含的所有文版内容包括子孙tag中的内容,并将结果作为Unicode字符串返回:
markup = '<a href="http://example.com/">\nI linked to <i>example.com</i>\n</a>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(markup)
soup.get_text()
u'\nI linked to example.com\n'
soup.i.get_text()
u'example.com'
可以通过参数指定tag的文本内容的分隔符:
# soup.get_text("|")
u'\nI linked to |example.com|\n'
还可以去除获得文本内容的前后空白:
# soup.get_text("|", strip=True)
u'I linked to|example.com'
编码：
还可以调用 BeautifulSoup 对象或任意节点的 encode() 方法,就像Python的字符串调用 encode() 方法一样:
soup.p.encode("latin-1")
# '<p>Sacr\xe9 bleu!</p>'
soup.p.encode("utf-8")
# '<p>Sacr\xc3\xa9 bleu!</p>'
CSS选择器：
Beautiful Soup支持大部分的CSS选择器,在Tag或BeautifulSoup对象的.select()方法中传入字符串参数,即可使用CSS选择器的语法找到tag:
soup.select("title")
# [<title>The Dormouse's story</title>]
soup.select("p nth-of-type(3)")
# [<p class="story">...</p>]
通过tag标签逐层查找:
soup.select("body a")
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
soup.select("html head title")
# [<title>The Dormouse's story</title>]
找到某个tag标签下的直接子标签:
soup.select("head > title")
# [<title>The Dormouse's story</title>]
soup.select("p > a")
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
soup.select("p > a:nth-of-type(2)")
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>]
soup.select("p > #link1")
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>]
soup.select("body > a")
# []
找到兄弟节点标签:
soup.select("#link1 ~ .sister")
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
soup.select("#link1 + .sister")
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>]
通过CSS的类名查找:
soup.select(".sister")
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
soup.select("[class~=sister]")
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
通过tag的id查找:
soup.select("#link1")
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>]
soup.select("a#link2")
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>]
通过是否存在某个属性来查找:
soup.select('a[href]')
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
通过属性的值来查找:
soup.select('a[href="http://example.com/elsie"]')
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>]
soup.select('a[href^="http://example.com/"]')
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">Lacie</a>,
# <a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
soup.select('a[href$="tillie"]')
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link3">Tillie</a>]
soup.select('a[href*=".com/el"]')
# [<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">Elsie</a>]
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