Leaf

Designed as a wrapper around lxml, it now expands lxml with all the features normally needed in HTML data mining.

Features:

• General features:
• Nice jQuery-like CSS selectors
• Simple access to element attributes
• Easy way for convert HTML to other format (BBcode, Markdown, etc)
• Few nice functions for work with text
• Saves all original features of lxml
• Functions to work with pure text:
• to_unicode -- Convert string to Unicode string
• strip_accents -- Strip accents from a string
• strip_symbols -- Strip ugly Unicode symbols from a string
• strip_spaces -- Strip excess spaces from a string
• strip_linebreaks -- Strip excess line breaks from a string

Requirements:

• lxml