Parser that builds a HTML syntax tree.
The HTML::TreeBuilder is a parser that builds a HTML syntax tree from data or a string.
Questions tagged [html-treebuilder]
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Need suggestion in printing the matched result one by one by using HTML-TreeBuilder-XPath findnodes() method
I am parsing an html content by using HTML-TreeBuilder-XPath
in Perl . i have got the xpath location of the data i need. The issue i am facing is ,There are several matches of the xpath $html->findnodes()which is returned by single result ,but i…
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perl Find varying element id using HTML::Treebuilder
I am trying to use a websites in built search function to collect data from it but can't work out how to press the 'search' button as it has some javascript wrapped around it and the id changes with each new iteration of the page.
Data for the…
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bs4.FeatureNotFound: Couldn't find a tree builder with the features you requested: html-parser. Do you need to install a parser library?
I was trying to Web Scraping by the following code:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import pandas as pd
page = requests.get('https://www.google.com/search?q=phagwara+weather')
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html-parser')
day =…
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Perl HTML::Element how to look_down to extract next tag after a matching tag
I am using HTML::TreeBuilder to process HTML files. In those files I can have definition lists where there is term "Database" with definition "Database Name". Simulated html looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use…
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Why does look_down method in HTML::Element fail to find elements?
The code below shows that TreeBuilder method look_down cannot find the "section" element. Why?
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;
my $html =<<'END_HTML';
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TreeBuilder Get embedded nodes
Basically, I need to get the names and emails from all of these people in the HTML code.
Name
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HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath findvalue returns concatenation of values
The findvalue function in HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath returns a concatenation of any values found by the xpath query.
Why does it do this, and how could a concatenation of the values be useful to anyone?
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HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath missing last tag in result
use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;
my $mech = new WWW::Mechanize;
my $tree = new HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;
my $url = "http://www.elaws.gov.bw/wondersbtree.php";
$mech->get($url);
$tree->parse($mech->content());
@nodes =…
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HTML::TreeBuilder inside a loop
I'm trying to delete all table elements from several HTML files.
The following code runs perfectly on a single file, but when trying to automate the process it returns the error
can't call method "look_down" on an undefined value
Do you have any…
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Perl split string at character entity reference
Quick Perl question with hopefully a simple answer. I'm trying to perform a split on a string containing non breaking spaces ( ). This is after reading in an html page using HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath and retrieving the string needed by…
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Tree Builder issue with unicode text
I am using HTML::TreeBuilder to extract contents of a url by using tree->lookdown and then extracting text part from the string returned in lookdown method. My problem here is when I read that text and write it into a file its showing as junk. I am…
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How to parse html with HTML::TreeBuilder?
This is the code I'd like to parse
[...]
Acid Splash
Caster Level(s):…
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Perl HTML:TreeBuilder tag not equal to
I am using HTML::TreeBuilder in order to extract data from html file. What I need to do is to:
$div->look_down(_tag => 'a', 'href' !=> 'index.html')
So I am searching for a href that is not equal to 'index.html' and one other tag but obviously !=>…
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Converting HTML table to text using perl
I have a html table content which I am trying to convert it into text with same structure,
with the help of use HTML::TreeBuilder and use HTML::FormatText in perl. I have tried with this code
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;
use…
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How to fetch the value of a HTML tag using HTML::Tree?
Lets say i have an array which holds the contents of the body tag like shown below:
print Dumper(\@array);
$VAR1 =
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