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Using the Python Documentation I found the HTML parser but I have no idea which library to import to use it, how do I find this out (bearing in mind it doesn't say on the page).
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The HTMLParser class defined in this module provides functionality to parse HTML and XHMTL documents. This class contains handler methods that can identify tags, data, comments and other HTML elements.
An HTMLParser instance is fed HTML data and calls handler methods when start tags, end tags, text, comments, and other markup elements are encountered.
Beautiful Soup is a Python package for parsing HTML and XML documents (including having malformed markup, i.e. non-closed tags, so named after tag soup). It creates a parse tree for parsed pages that can be used to extract data from HTML, which is useful for web scraping.
You probably really want BeautifulSoup, check the link for an example.
But in any case
>>> import HTMLParser
>>> h = HTMLParser.HTMLParser()
>>> h.feed('<html></html>')
>>> h.get_starttag_text()
'<html>'
>>> h.close()
Try:
import HTMLParser
In Python 3.0, the HTMLParser module has been renamed to html.parser you can check about this here
Python 3.0
import html.parser
Python 2.2 and above
import HTMLParser
I would recommend using Beautiful Soup module instead and it has good documentation.
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You may be interested in lxml. It is a separate package and has C components, but is the fastest. It has also very nice API, allowing you to easily list links in HTML documents, or list forms, sanitize HTML, and more. It also has capabilities to parse not well-formed HTML (it's configurable).
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