SoupSieve: A Modern CSS Selector Implementation for Beautiful Soup

2.8.3 · active · verified Sat Mar 28

SoupSieve is a modern CSS selector implementation for Beautiful Soup, currently at version 2.8.3. It is actively maintained and follows a regular release cadence, with recent updates addressing various fixes and improvements.

Warnings

breaking SoupSieve 2.8 drops support for Python 3.8 and earlier versions.
Fix: Upgrade your Python environment to version 3.9 or later to ensure compatibility.
deprecated The ':in-range' and ':out-of-range' pseudo-classes are deprecated in SoupSieve 2.8.
Fix: Avoid using ':in-range' and ':out-of-range' pseudo-classes in your CSS selectors.

Install

pip install soupsieve Install SoupSieve

Imports

SoupSieve
```
from soupsieve import SoupSieve
```
Ensure you import SoupSieve directly from the 'soupsieve' package to access its functionalities.

Quickstart

A simple example demonstrating how to use SoupSieve to parse HTML and select elements using CSS selectors.

from soupsieve import SoupSieve

# Example usage of SoupSieve
html = '<html><body><div class="content">Hello, World!</div></body></html>'
soup = SoupSieve(html)
elements = soup.select('.content')
print(elements[0].text)  # Output: Hello, World!

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