Something like PhantomJS may be more robust, but here’s some basic Python code to extract it the full menu: After that, you’ll want to search through the menu for the date you’re interested in. EDIT: Some overkill on my part:
Create a dummy DOM element and add the string to it. Then, you can manipulate it like any DOM element. Edit: adding a jQuery answer to please the fans!
So that I can ask it to get me the content/text in the div tag with class=’container’ contained within the body tag, Or something similar. You don’t need performance descriptions I guess – just read how BeautifulSoup works. Look at its official documentation.
Native XML Extensions I prefer using one of the native XML extensions since they come bundled with PHP, are usually faster than all the 3rd party libs and give me all the control I need over the markup. DOM The DOM extension allows you to operate on XML documents through the DOM API with PHP 5. It … Read more
Self plug: I have just released a new Java HTML parser: jsoup. I mention it here because I think it will do what you are after. Its party trick is a CSS selector syntax to find elements, e.g.: See the Selector javadoc for more info. This is a new project, so any ideas for improvement are very welcome!
Parsing usually applies to text – the act of reading text and converting it into a more useful in-memory format, “understanding” what it means to some extent. So for example, an XML parser will take the sequence of characters (or bytes) and convert them into elements, attributes etc. In some cases (particularly compilers) there’s a … Read more