cssselect parses CSS3 Selectors_ and translate them to XPath 1.0_ expressions. Such expressions can be used in lxml_ or another XPath engine to find the matching elements in an XML or HTML document.

This module used to live inside of lxml as lxml.cssselect before it was extracted as a stand-alone project.

.. _CSS3 Selectors: https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/ .. _XPath 1.0: https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/ .. _lxml: http://lxml.de/

Quick facts:

Free software: BSD licensed
Compatible with Python 2.6+ and 3.2+
Latest documentation on python.org <https://pythonhosted.org/cssselect/>_
Source, issues and pull requests on Github <https://github.com/scrapy/cssselect>_
Releases on PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cssselect>_
Install with pip install cssselect