scrapy/w3lib · GitHub

scrapy/w3lib · GitHub

w3lib

Overview

This is a Python library of web-related functions, such as:

• remove comments, or tags from HTML snippets
• extract base url from HTML snippets
• translate entites on HTML strings
• encoding mulitpart/form-data
• convert raw HTTP headers to dicts and vice-versa
• construct HTTP auth header
• converting HTML pages to unicode
• RFC-compliant url joining
• sanitize urls (like browsers do)
• extract arguments from urls

Modules

The w3lib package consists of four modules:

• w3lib.url - functions for working with URLs
• w3lib.html - functions for working with HTML
• w3lib.http - functions for working with HTTP
• w3lib.encoding - functions for working with character encoding
• w3lib.form - functions for working with web forms