"""Diagnostic functions, mainly for use when doing tech support."""
import cProfile
from StringIO import StringIO
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
import bs4
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, __version__
from bs4.builder import builder_registry
import os
import pstats
import random
import tempfile
import time
import traceback
import sys
import cProfile
def diagnose(data):
"""Diagnostic suite for isolating common problems."""
print "Diagnostic running on Beautiful Soup %s" % __version__
print "Python version %s" % sys.version
basic_parsers = ["html.parser", "html5lib", "lxml"]
for name in basic_parsers:
for builder in builder_registry.builders:
if name in builder.features:
break
else:
basic_parsers.remove(name)
print (
"I noticed that %s is not installed. Installing it may help." %
name)
if 'lxml' in basic_parsers:
basic_parsers.append(["lxml", "xml"])
from lxml import etree
print "Found lxml version %s" % ".".join(map(str,etree.LXML_VERSION))
if 'html5lib' in basic_parsers:
import html5lib
print "Found html5lib version %s" % html5lib.__version__
if hasattr(data, 'read'):
data = data.read()
elif os.path.exists(data):
print '"%s" looks like a filename. Reading data from the file.' % data
data = open(data).read()
elif data.startswith("http:") or data.startswith("https:"):
print '"%s" looks like a URL. Beautiful Soup is not an HTTP client.' % data
print "You need to use some other library to get the document behind the URL, and feed that document to Beautiful Soup."
return
print
for parser in basic_parsers:
print "Trying to parse your markup with %s" % parser
success = False
try:
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, parser)
success = True
except Exception, e:
print "%s could not parse the markup." % parser
traceback.print_exc()
if success:
print "Here's what %s did with the markup:" % parser
print soup.prettify()
print "-" * 80
def lxml_trace(data, html=True, **kwargs):
"""Print out the lxml events that occur during parsing.
This lets you see how lxml parses a document when no Beautiful
Soup code is running.
"""
from lxml import etree
for event, element in etree.iterparse(StringIO(data), html=html, **kwargs):
print("%s, %4s, %s" % (event, element.tag, element.text))
class AnnouncingParser(HTMLParser):
"""Announces HTMLParser parse events, without doing anything else."""
def _p(self, s):
print(s)
def handle_starttag(self, name, attrs):
self._p("%s START" % name)
def handle_endtag(self, name):
self._p("%s END" % name)
def handle_data(self, data):
self._p("%s DATA" % data)
def handle_charref(self, name):
self._p("%s CHARREF" % name)
def handle_entityref(self, name):
self._p("%s ENTITYREF" % name)
def handle_comment(self, data):
self._p("%s COMMENT" % data)
def handle_decl(self, data):
self._p("%s DECL" % data)
def unknown_decl(self, data):
self._p("%s UNKNOWN-DECL" % data)
def handle_pi(self, data):
self._p("%s PI" % data)
def htmlparser_trace(data):
"""Print out the HTMLParser events that occur during parsing.
This lets you see how HTMLParser parses a document when no
Beautiful Soup code is running.
"""
parser = AnnouncingParser()
parser.feed(data)
_vowels = "aeiou"
_consonants = "bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz"
def rword(length=5):
"Generate a random word-like string."
s = ''
for i in range(length):
if i % 2 == 0:
t = _consonants
else:
t = _vowels
s += random.choice(t)
return s
def rsentence(length=4):
"Generate a random sentence-like string."
return " ".join(rword(random.randint(4,9)) for i in range(length))
def rdoc(num_elements=1000):
"""Randomly generate an invalid HTML document."""
tag_names = ['p', 'div', 'span', 'i', 'b', 'script', 'table']
elements = []
for i in range(num_elements):
choice = random.randint(0,3)
if choice == 0:
# New tag.
tag_name = random.choice(tag_names)
elements.append("<%s>" % tag_name)
elif choice == 1:
elements.append(rsentence(random.randint(1,4)))
elif choice == 2:
# Close a tag.
tag_name = random.choice(tag_names)
elements.append("</%s>" % tag_name)
return "<html>" + "\n".join(elements) + "</html>"
def benchmark_parsers(num_elements=100000):
"""Very basic head-to-head performance benchmark."""
print "Comparative parser benchmark on Beautiful Soup %s" % __version__
data = rdoc(num_elements)
print "Generated a large invalid HTML document (%d bytes)." % len(data)
for parser in ["lxml", ["lxml", "html"], "html5lib", "html.parser"]:
success = False
try:
a = time.time()
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, parser)
b = time.time()
success = True
except Exception, e:
print "%s could not parse the markup." % parser
traceback.print_exc()
if success:
print "BS4+%s parsed the markup in %.2fs." % (parser, b-a)
from lxml import etree
a = time.time()
etree.HTML(data)
b = time.time()
print "Raw lxml parsed the markup in %.2fs." % (b-a)
import html5lib
parser = html5lib.HTMLParser()
a = time.time()
parser.parse(data)
b = time.time()
print "Raw html5lib parsed the markup in %.2fs." % (b-a)
def profile(num_elements=100000, parser="lxml"):
filehandle = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
filename = filehandle.name
data = rdoc(num_elements)
vars = dict(bs4=bs4, data=data, parser=parser)
cProfile.runctx('bs4.BeautifulSoup(data, parser)' , vars, vars, filename)
stats = pstats.Stats(filename)
# stats.strip_dirs()
stats.sort_stats("cumulative")
stats.print_stats('_html5lib|bs4', 50)
if __name__ == '__main__':
diagnose(sys.stdin.read())