http://simonwillison.net/2018-02-25T16:49:19+00:00Simon Willison2018-02-25T16:49:19+00:002018-02-25T16:49:19+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2018/Feb/25/requests-html/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests-html">kennethreitz/requests-html: HTML Parsing for Humans™</a></strong></p> Neat and tiny wrapper around requests, lxml and html2text that provides a Kenneth Reitz grade API design for intuitively fetching and scraping web pages. The inclusion of html2text means you can use a CSS selector to select a specific HTML element and then convert that to the equivalent markdown in a one-liner. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://twitter.com/kennethreitz/status/967749676312211456">@kennethreitz</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html">html</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/requests">requests</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scraping">scraping</a></p>

2008-06-30T09:27:52+00:002008-06-30T09:27:52+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/30/comet/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://cometdaily.com/2008/06/30/enough-already-with-the-connections/">Enough Already with the Connections!</a></strong></p> Comet doesn’t mean making long-lived HTTP connections (which most browsers do anyway thanks to HTTP keep-alive), it means making long-held HTTP requests. I’m guilty of spreading this misinformation in the past. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/comet">comet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/connections">connections</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/correction">correction</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/http">http</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/keepalive">keepalive</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/requests">requests</a></p>