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/ soup_xpath_gen.py
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June 16, 2023 18:59
deterministic xpath generation of BeautifulSoup elements for web crawling
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| import html | |
| BAD_CHARS = set(["\"", "'", "[", "]"]) | |
| # generates an xpath string for a given BeautifulSoup element | |
| def soup_xpath_gen(element): | |
| xpath = "" | |
| while element.name != 'document': | |
| if element.name == 'html': | |
| xpath = "/html/" + xpath |