pynliner

Pynliner : Convert CSS to inline styles

Python CSS-to-inline-styles conversion tool for HTML using BeautifulSoup and cssutils

Copyright (c) 2011-2016 Tanner Netterville

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installation

$ pip install pynliner

example

>>> html = u'<style>h1 { color:#ffcc00; }</style><h1>Hello World!</h1>'
>>> output = pynliner.fromString(html)
u'<h1 style="color: #fc0">Hello World!</h1>'

functions

pynliner.fromURL(url, **kwargs)

Shortcut Pynliner constructor. Equivalent to:

>>> Pynliner().from_url(someURL).run()

Returns processed HTML string.

pynliner.fromString(string, **kwargs)

Shortcut Pynliner constructor. Equivalent to:

>>> Pynliner().from_string(someString).run()

Returns processed HTML string.

pynliner.Pynliner

class pynliner.Pynliner(log=None, allow_conditional_comments=False, preserve_entities=True)

Pynliner class

methods

Pynliner.from_url(url)

Gets remote HTML page for conversion

Downloads HTML page from url as a string and passes it to the from_string method. Also sets self.root_url and self.relative_url for use in importing <link> elements.

Returns self.

>>> p = Pynliner()
>>> p.from_url('http://somewebsite.com/file.html')
<Pynliner object at 0x26ac70>
Pynliner.from_string(string)

Generates a Pynliner object from the given HTML string.

Returns self.

>>> p = Pynliner()
>>> p.from_string('<style>h1 {color:#ffcc00;}</style><h1>Hi</h1>')
<Pynliner object at 0x26ac70>
Pynliner.with_cssString(css_string)

Adds external CSS to the Pynliner object. Can be “chained”.

Returns self.

>>> html = "<h1>Hello World!</h1>"
>>> css = "h1 { color:#ffcc00; }"
>>> p = Pynliner()
>>> p.from_string(html).with_cssString(css)
<pynliner.Pynliner object at 0x2ca810>
Pynliner.run()

Applies each step of the process if they have not already been performed.

Returns Unicode output with applied styles.

>>> html = "<style>h1 { color:#ffcc00; }</style><h1>Hello World!</h1>"
>>> Pynliner().from_string(html).run()
u'<h1 style="color: #fc0">Hello World!</h1>'

changelog

0.8.0

0.7.2

0.7.1

0.7.0

0.6.0

0.5.0

  • started keeping track of changes here.
  • improve CSS capabilities
  • abandon old versions of BeautifulSoup (pre 3.2.1) in favor of full unicode support