Here’s a question for the #hivemind : What do people use to do server-side processing of html? I generally use BeautifulSoup with Python, but I’m about to start a new project and am curious to see what else is out there. Java, Python, and Go are potential language choices for me (most of this will run on Google Appengine); Any suggestions?
Here’s a question for the #hivemind : What do people use to do server-side processing of html? I generally use…
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Are you trying to parse potentially complex HTML documents? Or is this just for simple markup?
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I don’t expect huge complexity, or very many buggy pages in general.
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Okay, so you’re parsing real HTML. In that case you want lxml (on Python) which is based on libxml2.
Also, Python 3 has HTMLParser as part of the standard library (and is based on BeautifulSoup).
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Looks interesting – Thanks!
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go? I thought that was dead…
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Not really, but it doesn’t have much takeup that I know of outside of GAE. I run into it here and there and it’s interesting, so I’m not against using it for something small to see how it, you know, goes.
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that’s kind of what I meant 🙂
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