1. 本程序目的是提取网页中div class = "article_category" 的<a>标签下的text内容即黑体所示:
<div class="article_category"><a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Games/Video_Games/Titles/Recreation_and_Sports/Sports/Racing_and_Driving/MotorStorm" target="_blank">Recreation>Games>Video Games>Titles>Recreation and Sports>Sports>Racing and Driving>MotorStorm</a></div>
2. 使用的lib有:
import urllib2from lxml import etree
3. 源码:
(1) 获取html内容:
def get_html(url):
try:
response = urllib2.urlopen(url,timeout = 30)
html = response.read()
return html
except Exception, e:
print e
(2)构建元素树etree,并利用xpath得到标签内容:
def get_cat(ht):
tree = etree.HTML(ht)
cont = tree.xpath("//div[@class='article_category']/a")
cat_ls = []
for x in cont:
cat_ls.append(x.text)
return cat_ls