===== w3lib

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Overview

This is a Python library of web-related functions, such as:

• remove comments, or tags from HTML snippets
• extract base url from HTML snippets
• translate entites on HTML strings
• convert raw HTTP headers to dicts and vice-versa
• construct HTTP auth header
• converting HTML pages to unicode
• sanitize urls (like browsers do)
• extract arguments from urls

Requirements

Python 3.8+

Install

pip install w3lib

Documentation

See http://w3lib.readthedocs.org/

License

The w3lib library is licensed under the BSD license.