Add another parsing method

[MaurizioRicci]

Often desired information in a web site, are grouped under class name. For example in some site a list of torrent are a list of div with a particular class. So in some case it would be better to find elements by ID, ClassName or by Type instead of parsing page with the standard html parser and using various flags or variable to remember the state during parsing.

The question is, what about adding another parsing method? Something like jQuery, maybe pyquery or BeautifulSoup:
https://pythonhosted.org/pyquery/
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/

What do you think? @Chocobo1 @sledgehammer999 @Piccirello @zeule @ngosang @hannsen

[hannsen]

What do you propose, that they distribute BeautifulSoup with Qbit?

[MaurizioRicci]

@hannsen Yes I was thinking something like that. I don't think that it will require too effort and it may help a lot people. What do you think?

[ngosang]

I think beautifulsoup4 is perfect for this, but we have to include the package in the qbittorrent repository so the user doesn't have to install external packages. I can do it but I think @sledgehammer999 will oppose...

[MaurizioRicci]

I understand, never mind. Mine was just a suggestion

[nindogo]

Often desired information in a web site, are grouped under class name. For example in some site a list of torrent are a list of div with a particular class. So in some case it would be better to find elements by ID, ClassName or by Type instead of parsing page with the standard html parser and using various flags or variable to remember the state during parsing.

Could you please share a couple of sites with this issue?

nindogo

[MaurizioRicci]

I was thinking about all the site whose content are inside a table. It would be easy to find all tr and then iterating all td inside each tr. Instead of parsing whole page with flag. My request was intended as a suggestion if it could be done easily. I don't want to give you hard work Maurizio Ricci Il giorno sab 1 dic 2018, 20:26 Ni Ndogo <notifications@github.com> ha scritto:

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Often desired information in a web site, are grouped under class name. For example in some site a list of torrent are a list of div with a particular class. So in some case it would be better to find elements by ID, ClassName or by Type instead of parsing page with the standard html parser and using various flags or variable to remember the state during parsing. Could you please share a couple of sites with this issue? nindogo — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#53 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AflCPDKtffqJRp2AN0fqo902lxAbsZ01ks5u0tf7gaJpZM4W1qfG> .

[nindogo]

Hi,

I have found for many of those, the re module can usually help.

[hannsen]

yeah I used a lot regex, too. It's faster than parsing but also not very readable, but neither is the standard html parser

[imDMG]

Right now i write (trying) a module (wrapper) for HTMLParser: https://github.com/imDMG/HTMLSelector
For now working some basic operations.

[MaurizioRicci]

i like your module, it looks like pyquery or similar plus it's based on HTMLparser, wich is a standars module