jquery-like HTML parsing in Python?

Question

Is there any Python library that allows me to parse an HTML document similar to what jQuery does?

i.e. I\'d like to be able to use CSS selectors

Answer 1

If you are fluent with BeautifulSoup, you could just add soupselect to your libs.
Soupselect is a CSS selector extension for BeautifulSoup.

Usage:

>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as Soup
>>> from soupselect import select
>>> import urllib
>>> soup = Soup(urllib.urlopen('http://slashdot.org/'))
>>> select(soup, 'div.title h3')
[
Science:
,
 
Star Trek
,
..]