How to parse a web page containing CSS and HTML using python

Question

Am trying to parse and extract some information from a web page that contains CSS and of course HTML. I am using cssutils and beatifulsoup for this. Lets say I want to find out the font size used for a table heading. Beautifulsoup tells me where the table definition is in HTML. But if I want to know which style is used in the table do I get that information from BeatifulSoup? If not how do I go about solving this problem. Thanks for any help.

Can you give example code?

Abbasov Alexander
– Abbasov Alexander

2013-07-03 22:14:39 +00:00
Commented Jul 3, 2013 at 22:14 — Abbasov Alexander
– Abbasov Alexander, Commented Jul 3, 2013 at 22:14

Abbasov Alexander · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-03 22:27:37Z

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Yes you get it. BeautifulSoup is perfect the choice and with regular expression is strong power :)

Example:

import re
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup


soup = BeautifulSoup('<h1 style="font-size: 12px; margin: 5px">Test</h>')
style = soup.find('h1')['style']
re.findall('font-size[^;]+', style)
# [u'font-size: 12px']

edited Jul 3, 2013 at 22:27

answered Jul 3, 2013 at 22:12

Abbasov Alexander

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