Question

Sometimes, I want to parse HTML to extract URLs.
I find [html.parser.HTMLParser] and [re.match] both can do the job.
I want to know which is faster.

Is there a python-module like jquery to parse HTML?

If you have better solution, please leave a comment.

Thanks

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lxml is very good.
it make the job really simple.

>>>for url in parse(urlopen('http://www.stackoverflow.com')).getroot().find_class('question-hyperlink'): print(url.get('href'))

Answer 1

I would strongly suggest lxml. In my experience, it is the fastest. lxml will actually generate a tree in memory. So you can parse/serialize/…
On the other hand, if you have to pick among the mentioned two options, I’d suggest you use the timeit module and determine it.