Method getElementsByTag

newspaper/parsers.py:110–122

(
            cls, node, tag=None, attr=None, value=None, childs=False)

    @classmethod
    def getElementsByTag(
            cls, node, tag=None, attr=None, value=None, childs=False):
        NS = "http://exslt.org/regular-expressions"
        # selector = tag or '*'
        selector = 'descendant-or-self::%s' % (tag or '*')
        if attr and value:
            selector = '%s[re:test(@%s, "%s", "i")]' % (selector, attr, value)
        elems = node.xpath(selector, namespaces={"re": NS})
        # remove the root node
        # if we have a selection tag
        if node in elems and (tag or childs):
            elems.remove(node)
        return elems

    @classmethod
    def appendChild(cls, node, child):