python [lxml] - cleaning out html tags

Question

from lxml.html.clean import clean_html, Cleaner
    def clean(text):
        try:        
            cleaner = Cleaner(scripts=True, embedded=True, meta=True, page_         


        

Answer 1

I think you should check out Beautiful Soup. Use the advice from this article and strip the HTML elements in the following way:

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

''.join(BeautifulSoup(page).findAll(text=True))

Where page is your string of html.

Should you need further clarification, you can check out the Dive into Python case study on HTML parsing.