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Suggestion - Select all given selector #30
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Hello!
I admire this amazing package where it has helped me both with work and also better knowledge! Its amazing!
I would like to give a suggestion and maybe this already has this function without me knowing it but I was thinking if there is a possibility to do a sort of selection of selectors. etc (Which I got inspiration from bs4):
selector= SoupStrainer(["h1", "a"])
bs4 = soup(response.text, 'lxml', parse_only=strainer)
what it basically does, instead of having the whole HTML printed out, it only prints out all that contains h1 & a in this case which saves more resources instead of needing to pull out the whole HTML everytime to scrape. If this is a possibility of course?
Admire your work!
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rushter commentedon Oct 6, 2020
Hi, I don't think this is possible on my side. Modest library does not have support for it, we need to modify the C parser first.
I could be wrong, I haven't looked at Modest source code for a long time.
BarryThrill commentedon Oct 6, 2020
Ah crap :( That would be a cool feature but of course, no point if it will take you lots of time and also if you dont see a reason to do it aswell. Still appreciate what you have done here! :)
rushter commentedon Oct 6, 2020
Yeah, it's a good feature, so let's keep the issue open.
BarryThrill commentedon Dec 11, 2020
Hi @rushter! I hope you are doing well and staying safe!
I just wanted to check with you if you had any chance to look at it? 😁
rushter commentedon Dec 18, 2020
Sorry, I don't have time to look at this right now. This is a pretty big task.