htmlparsing

#
# Example file for parsing and processign HTML
#

from html.parser import HTMLParser

metacount = 0

class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
	def handle_coment(self, data):
		print("Encountered comment: ", data)
		pos = self.getpos()
		print("\tAt line: ", pos[0], " position ", pos[1])

	def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
		global metacount
		if tag == 'meta':
			metacount += 1
		print("Encountered tag: ", tag)
		pos = self.getpos()
		print("\tAt line: ", pos[0], " position ", pos[1])

		if attrs.__len__() > 0:
			print("\tAttributes: ")
			for a in attrs:
				print("\t", a[0], "=", a[1])


	def handle_endtag(self, tag):
		print("Encountered tag: ", tag)
		pos = self.getpos()
		print("\tAt line: ", pos[0], " position ", pos[1])

	def handle_data(self, data):
		if(data.isspace()):
			return
		print("Encountered data: ", data)
		pos = self.getpos()
		print("\tAt line: ", pos[0], " position ", pos[1])

def main():
	#instantiate the parser and feed it some HTML
	parser = MyHTMLParser()
	f = open("samplehtml.html")
	if f.mode == 'r':
		contents = f.read()
		parser.feed(contents)

	print("Meta tags found: " + str(metacount))

if __name__ == "__main__":
	main()