# A simple HTML table parser. It turns tables (including nested tables) into arrays
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
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#
# Nigel Sim
# http://simbot.wordpress.com
# http://projects.nigelsim.org
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
import re, string, os
from string import lower
class Table(list):
pass
class Row(list):
pass
class Cell(list):
"""The cell holds components of text and HTML anchors"""
def append(self,item):
s = super(Cell, self)
if isinstance(item, str):
if len(self) == 0 or isinstance(top(self), str):
if len(self) > 0:
i = len(self)-1
self[i] = self[i] + item
else:
s.append(item)
elif isinstance(top(self), Anchor):
s.append(item)
else:
s.append(item)
class Anchor(object):
"""HTML Anchor"""
def __init__(self, href):
self.href = href
self.text = None
def append(self, text):
self.text = text
def __str__(self):
return '%s'%(self.href, self.text)
def __repr__(self):
"""Possible not the best repr"""
return '{"href": "%s", "text": "%s"}'%(self.href, self.text)
class Image(object):
def __init__(self, src):
self.src = src
def __repr__(self):
return '{"src": "%s"}'%(self.src)
# Get the item on the top of a stack
def top(x):
return x[len(x)-1]
class TableParser(HTMLParser):
def __init__(self, parser=None, anchors=True):
"""
The parser is a method which will be passed the doc at the end
of the parsing. Useful if TableParser is within an inner loop and
you want to automatically process the document. If it is omitted then
it will do nothing
"""
self._tag = None
self._buf = None
self._attrs = None
self.doc = None # Where the document will be stored
self._stack = None
self._parser = parser
self.reset()
self.anchors = anchors
return
def reset(self):
HTMLParser.reset(self)
self.doc = []
self._stack = [self.doc]
self._buf = ''
def close(self):
HTMLParser.close(self)
if self._parser != None:
self._parser(self.doc)
def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
self._tag = tag
self._attrs = attrs
attrs = dict(attrs)
if lower(tag) == 'table':
self._buf = ''
self._stack.append(Table())
elif lower(tag) == 'tr':
self._buf = ''
self._stack.append(Row())
elif lower(tag) == 'td':
self._buf = ''
self._stack.append(Cell())
elif lower(tag) == 'a' and self.anchors and isinstance(top(self._stack), Cell):
# add the text we already have
if len(self._buf) > 0:
top(self._stack).append(self._buf)
self._buf = ''
self._stack.append(Anchor(attrs['href']))
elif lower(tag) == 'img' and self.anchors and isinstance(top(self._stack), Cell):
# add the text we already have
if len(self._buf) > 0:
top(self._stack).append(self._buf)
self._buf = ''
top(self._stack).append(Image(attrs['src']))
#print "Encountered the beginning of a %s tag" % tag
def handle_endtag(self, tag):
if lower(tag) == 'table':
t = None
while not isinstance(t, Table):
t = self._stack.pop()
r = top(self._stack)
r.append(t)
elif lower(tag) == 'tr':
t = None
while not isinstance(t, Row):
t = self._stack.pop()
r = top(self._stack)
r.append(t)
elif lower(tag) == 'td':
c = None
while not isinstance(c, Cell):
c = self._stack.pop()
t = top(self._stack)
if isinstance(t, Row):
if len(self._buf) > 0:
c.append(self._buf)
t.append(c)
else:
print "Cell not in a row, rather in a %s"%t
elif lower(tag) == 'a' and self.anchors and isinstance(top(self._stack), Anchor):
a = None
while not isinstance(a, Anchor):
a = self._stack.pop()
c = top(self._stack)
if isinstance(c, Cell):
a.append(self._buf)
self._buf = ''
c.append(a)
else:
print "anchor should be in a cell"
self._tag = None
#print "Encountered the end of a %s tag" % tag
def handle_data(self, data):
self._buf += data
if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys
if len(sys.argv) == 2 and sys.argv[1] == '-t':
# Run the doctests
import doctest
doctest.testmod()
elif len(sys.argv) == 2:
# Parse the URL provided
import pprint
import urllib2
f = urllib2.urlopen(sys.argv[1])
tp = TableParser()
tp.feed(f.read())
f.close()
pprint.pprint(tp.doc)
else:
# Print usage
print "run doctests: