WebClientProgramming
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Client-Side Web Programming
Libraries
µTidylib and mxTidy -- Python interfaces to html tidy library to clean up HTML documents.
html5lib A HTML5-compliant library for parsing arbitarily-broken HTML to a range of tree formats including minidom, elementtree (including lxml) and BeautifulSoup
BeautifulSoup -- a permissive HTML parser.
Don't use HTMLParser (Python 2.x) or html.parser (Python 3.x) on HTML that might be invalid! That way lies pain. Either clean it up (using tidy), or use a different parser.
ClientCookie, ClientForm, and Mechanize are higher-level libraries for writing a web client.
mechanoid a mechanize fork.
libxml2dom can parse HTML by employing libxml2's liberal HTML parser.