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xhtml2pdf
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Create PDFs using Python and xhtml2pdf
Here, we will generate a PDF file using an HTML template. We have to keep in mind that xhtml2pdf supports until HTML4. So, first, we have to create an HTML file that will behave as a template for our PDF file.
selectolax
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Web Scraping with Python: Everything you need to know to get started (2022)
try this... https://github.com/rushter/selectolax
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The State of Web Scraping in 2021
Lazyweb link: https://github.com/rushter/selectolax
although I don't follow the need to have what appears to be two completely separate HTML parsing C libraries as dependencies; seeing this in the readme for Modest gives me the shivers because lxml has _seen some shit_
> Modest is a fast HTML renderer implemented as a pure C99 library with no outside dependencies.
although its other dep seems much more cognizant about the HTML5 standard, for whatever that's worth: https://github.com/lexbor/lexbor#lexbor
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> It looks like the author of the article just googled some libraries for each language and didn't research the topic
Heh, oh, new to the Internet, are you? :-D
- Show HN: Fast HTML5 parser for Python with multiple backends
What are some alternatives?
lxml - The lxml XML toolkit for Python
bleach - Bleach is an allowed-list-based HTML sanitizing library that escapes or strips markup and attributes
lexbor - Lexbor is development of an open source HTML Renderer library. http://lexbor.com
html5lib - Standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments in Python
pyquery - A jquery-like library for python
MarkupSafe - Safely add untrusted strings to HTML/XML markup.
cssutils
pyppeteer - Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer)
xmltodict - Python module that makes working with XML feel like you are working with JSON