Extending CSS selectors in BeautifulSoup

Question

The Question:

BeautifulSoup provides a very limited support for CSS selectors. For instance, the only supported pseudo-class i

Answer 1

Officially, Beautifulsoup doesn't support all the CSS selectors.

If python is not the only choice, i strongly recommend JSoup (the java equivalent of this). It supports all the CSS selectors.

• It is open source (MIT license)
• Syntax is easy
• Supports all the css selectors
• Can span multiple threads too to scale up
• Rich API support in java to store in DBs. So, it is easy to integrate.

The other alternate way if you still want to stick with python, make it a jython implementation.

http://jsoup.org/

https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/