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copied!<p>Okay, first, in regards to parsing the HTML: if you follow the recommendation of zweiterlinde and S.Lott at least use the version of <a href="http://lxml.de/elementsoup.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">beautifulsoup included with lxml</a>. That way you will also reap the benefit of a nice xpath or css selector interface.</p> <p>However, I personally prefer Ian Bicking's <a href="http://lxml.de/lxmlhtml.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HTML parser included in lxml</a>.</p> <p>Secondly, <code>.find()</code> and <code>.findall()</code> come from lxml trying to be compatible with ElementTree, and those two methods are described in <a href="http://effbot.org/zone/element-xpath.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">XPath Support in ElementTree</a>.</p> <p>Those two functions are fairly easy to use but they are very limited XPath. I recommend trying to use either the full lxml <a href="http://lxml.de/xpathxslt.html#the-xpath-method" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>xpath()</code> method</a> or, if you are already familiar with CSS, using the <a href="http://lxml.de/cssselect.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>cssselect()</code> method</a>.</p> <p>Here are some examples, with an HTML string parsed like this:</p> <pre><code>from lxml.html import fromstring mySearchTree = fromstring(your_input_string) </code></pre> <p>Using the css selector class your program would roughly look something like this:</p> <pre><code># Find all 'a' elements inside 'tr' table rows with css selector for a in mySearchTree.cssselect('tr a'): print 'found "%s" link to href "%s"' % (a.text, a.get('href')) </code></pre> <p>The equivalent using xpath method would be:</p> <pre><code># Find all 'a' elements inside 'tr' table rows with xpath for a in mySearchTree.xpath('.//tr/*/a'): print 'found "%s" link to href "%s"' % (a.text, a.get('href')) </code></pre>

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