Parsing html with lxml on python

Question

I have following html code:

<div class="test">
    "Test"
    <br>
    <script type="text/javascript"></script>
    <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> 
    " "
</div>

How to get the email address from this code using lxml?

unutbu · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-15 16:27:48Z

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import lxml.html as LH
text='''\
<div class="test">
    "Test"
    <br>
    <script type="text/javascript"></script>
    <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> 
    " "
</div>
'''

doc=LH.fromstring(text)
print(doc.xpath('//a[starts-with(@href,"mailto:")]/text()')[0])
# [email protected]

edited Oct 15, 2011 at 16:27

answered Oct 15, 2011 at 13:39

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macvin9009 Over a year ago

<div class="test"> "Test" <br> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> " " </div> - it necessarily?

egor83 Over a year ago

No, it's only used to provide an input for the function. You'll have to replace text with whatever you keep the HTML in.

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