Adapted from soupsieve's inner package, to remove the hard coupling to Beautiful Soup.

Installation

Chinois is available on PyPi:

pip install chinois

The dependencies needed to use bisque and campbells parsing libraries are left to your taste. They can be installed with:

• pip install chinois[bisque] for the bold new flavours of Pydantic model-based parsers in Bisque.
• pip install chinois[campbells] for the Campbells parsers, preserving the heritage taste of the Beautiful Soup API.

The dependencies needed to use html5lib and lxml parsers are not installed by default. They can be installed with:

• pip install chinois[html5lib] to be able to use html5lib.
  • Pros: closest to how browsers parses web pages, very lenient, creates valid HTML5.
  • Cons: slowest parser.
• pip install chinois[lxml] to be able to use lxml.
  • Pros: fastest parser.
  • Cons: heavier dependency (C extension).