Python: Parse wordpress HTML

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I am trying to build a blog-mapping site, which would spot the current trends in a given set of blogs. For convenience, I'm going to focus on a given list of Wordpress blogs.

Is there a Python package for parsing Wordpress HTML?

I'm looking for:

Identification (Is the given HTML a Wordpress blog)
Blog properties (name, posts, rss link, blogroll...)
Post properties (title, text, tags...)

If there is no such package, I can implement it myself as an Open Source project, but an existing one would save me lots of time.

If you write your own, look at beautiful soup

nmichaels
– nmichaels

2011-04-07 21:13:50 +00:00
Commented Apr 7, 2011 at 21:13 — nmichaels
– nmichaels, Commented Apr 7, 2011 at 21:13
I suggest lxml as more modern

Guard
– Guard

2011-04-07 22:41:59 +00:00
Commented Apr 7, 2011 at 22:41 — Guard
– Guard, Commented Apr 7, 2011 at 22:41

minhee · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-08 02:30:12Z

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As I know, there are not any parsing libraries that parse WordPress HTML specially, but general-purpose HTML parsing libraries such as html5lib, BeautifulSoup.

I recommend you html5lib+lxml.html.

answered Apr 8, 2011 at 2:30

minhee

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