How to copy HTML code to clipboard using Python? - html

I'm trying to make a simple script that copies a custom text hyperlink (< a href="FakeSite.com">Example< /a>) to the clipboard using python on Windows 10 and still have it recognized as HTML when pasted, similar to how if you copy a custom text hyperlink in Microsoft Word.
I have tried the answers given in this response but to no avail, and I have also tried a package called jaraco.clipboard but it has also proven useless. Any help or direction would be appreciated.

I had the same doubt as you. After much research, I found the solution in python 2.
I updated the code and hope to help other people by posting here, the final result.
Follow the solution adapted to python 3.4+
Example of use:
input:
PutHtml("<p>Writing to the clipboard is <strong>easy</strong> with this code.</p>")
Then, try paste the clipboard (ctrl+v) in microsoft word or other local that support html formatting.
Paste result will be the word 'easy' in BOLD: Writing to the clipboard is easy with this code.
.
I even tested with table structures, images... Everything worked perfectly.
The script:
"""
Edit on Jan 02, 2020
#author: the_RR
Adapted for python 3.4+
Requires pywin32
original: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/474121/
# HtmlClipboard
# An interface to the "HTML Format" clipboard data format
__author__ = "Phillip Piper (jppx1[at]bigfoot.com)"
__date__ = "2006-02-21"
__version__ = "0.1"
"""
import re
import time
import random
import win32clipboard
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Convenience functions to do the most common operation
def HasHtml():
"""
Return True if there is a Html fragment in the clipboard..
"""
cb = HtmlClipboard()
return cb.HasHtmlFormat()
def GetHtml():
"""
Return the Html fragment from the clipboard or None if there is no Html in the clipboard.
"""
cb = HtmlClipboard()
if cb.HasHtmlFormat():
return cb.GetFragment()
else:
return None
def PutHtml(fragment):
"""
Put the given fragment into the clipboard.
Convenience function to do the most common operation
"""
cb = HtmlClipboard()
cb.PutFragment(fragment)
#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
class HtmlClipboard:
CF_HTML = None
MARKER_BLOCK_OUTPUT = \
"Version:1.0\r\n" \
"StartHTML:%09d\r\n" \
"EndHTML:%09d\r\n" \
"StartFragment:%09d\r\n" \
"EndFragment:%09d\r\n" \
"StartSelection:%09d\r\n" \
"EndSelection:%09d\r\n" \
"SourceURL:%s\r\n"
MARKER_BLOCK_EX = \
"Version:(\S+)\s+" \
"StartHTML:(\d+)\s+" \
"EndHTML:(\d+)\s+" \
"StartFragment:(\d+)\s+" \
"EndFragment:(\d+)\s+" \
"StartSelection:(\d+)\s+" \
"EndSelection:(\d+)\s+" \
"SourceURL:(\S+)"
MARKER_BLOCK_EX_RE = re.compile(MARKER_BLOCK_EX)
MARKER_BLOCK = \
"Version:(\S+)\s+" \
"StartHTML:(\d+)\s+" \
"EndHTML:(\d+)\s+" \
"StartFragment:(\d+)\s+" \
"EndFragment:(\d+)\s+" \
"SourceURL:(\S+)"
MARKER_BLOCK_RE = re.compile(MARKER_BLOCK)
DEFAULT_HTML_BODY = \
"<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">" \
"<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><!--StartFragment-->%s<!--EndFragment--></BODY></HTML>"
def __init__(self):
self.html = None
self.fragment = None
self.selection = None
self.source = None
self.htmlClipboardVersion = None
def GetCfHtml(self):
"""
Return the FORMATID of the HTML format
"""
if self.CF_HTML is None:
self.CF_HTML = win32clipboard.RegisterClipboardFormat("HTML Format")
return self.CF_HTML
def GetAvailableFormats(self):
"""
Return a possibly empty list of formats available on the clipboard
"""
formats = []
try:
win32clipboard.OpenClipboard(0)
cf = win32clipboard.EnumClipboardFormats(0)
while (cf != 0):
formats.append(cf)
cf = win32clipboard.EnumClipboardFormats(cf)
finally:
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
return formats
def HasHtmlFormat(self):
"""
Return a boolean indicating if the clipboard has data in HTML format
"""
return (self.GetCfHtml() in self.GetAvailableFormats())
def GetFromClipboard(self):
"""
Read and decode the HTML from the clipboard
"""
# implement fix from: http://teachthe.net/?p=1137
cbOpened = False
while not cbOpened:
try:
win32clipboard.OpenClipboard(0)
src = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData(self.GetCfHtml())
src = src.decode("UTF-8")
#print(src)
self.DecodeClipboardSource(src)
cbOpened = True
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
except Exception as err:
# If access is denied, that means that the clipboard is in use.
# Keep trying until it's available.
if err.winerror == 5: # Access Denied
pass
# wait on clipboard because something else has it. we're waiting a
# random amount of time before we try again so we don't collide again
time.sleep( random.random()/50 )
elif err.winerror == 1418: # doesn't have board open
pass
elif err.winerror == 0: # open failure
pass
else:
print( 'ERROR in Clipboard section of readcomments: %s' % err)
pass
def DecodeClipboardSource(self, src):
"""
Decode the given string to figure out the details of the HTML that's on the string
"""
# Try the extended format first (which has an explicit selection)
matches = self.MARKER_BLOCK_EX_RE.match(src)
if matches:
self.prefix = matches.group(0)
self.htmlClipboardVersion = matches.group(1)
self.html = src[int(matches.group(2)):int(matches.group(3))]
self.fragment = src[int(matches.group(4)):int(matches.group(5))]
self.selection = src[int(matches.group(6)):int(matches.group(7))]
self.source = matches.group(8)
else:
# Failing that, try the version without a selection
matches = self.MARKER_BLOCK_RE.match(src)
if matches:
self.prefix = matches.group(0)
self.htmlClipboardVersion = matches.group(1)
self.html = src[int(matches.group(2)):int(matches.group(3))]
self.fragment = src[int(matches.group(4)):int(matches.group(5))]
self.source = matches.group(6)
self.selection = self.fragment
def GetHtml(self, refresh=False):
"""
Return the entire Html document
"""
if not self.html or refresh:
self.GetFromClipboard()
return self.html
def GetFragment(self, refresh=False):
"""
Return the Html fragment. A fragment is well-formated HTML enclosing the selected text
"""
if not self.fragment or refresh:
self.GetFromClipboard()
return self.fragment
def GetSelection(self, refresh=False):
"""
Return the part of the HTML that was selected. It might not be well-formed.
"""
if not self.selection or refresh:
self.GetFromClipboard()
return self.selection
def GetSource(self, refresh=False):
"""
Return the URL of the source of this HTML
"""
if not self.selection or refresh:
self.GetFromClipboard()
return self.source
def PutFragment(self, fragment, selection=None, html=None, source=None):
"""
Put the given well-formed fragment of Html into the clipboard.
selection, if given, must be a literal string within fragment.
html, if given, must be a well-formed Html document that textually
contains fragment and its required markers.
"""
if selection is None:
selection = fragment
if html is None:
html = self.DEFAULT_HTML_BODY % fragment
if source is None:
source = "file://HtmlClipboard.py"
fragmentStart = html.index(fragment)
fragmentEnd = fragmentStart + len(fragment)
selectionStart = html.index(selection)
selectionEnd = selectionStart + len(selection)
self.PutToClipboard(html, fragmentStart, fragmentEnd, selectionStart, selectionEnd, source)
def PutToClipboard(self, html, fragmentStart, fragmentEnd, selectionStart, selectionEnd, source="None"):
"""
Replace the Clipboard contents with the given html information.
"""
try:
win32clipboard.OpenClipboard(0)
win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard()
src = self.EncodeClipboardSource(html, fragmentStart, fragmentEnd, selectionStart, selectionEnd, source)
src = src.encode("UTF-8")
#print(src)
win32clipboard.SetClipboardData(self.GetCfHtml(), src)
finally:
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
def EncodeClipboardSource(self, html, fragmentStart, fragmentEnd, selectionStart, selectionEnd, source):
"""
Join all our bits of information into a string formatted as per the HTML format specs.
"""
# How long is the prefix going to be?
dummyPrefix = self.MARKER_BLOCK_OUTPUT % (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, source)
lenPrefix = len(dummyPrefix)
prefix = self.MARKER_BLOCK_OUTPUT % (lenPrefix, len(html)+lenPrefix,
fragmentStart+lenPrefix, fragmentEnd+lenPrefix,
selectionStart+lenPrefix, selectionEnd+lenPrefix,
source)
return (prefix + html)
def DumpHtml():
cb = HtmlClipboard()
print("GetAvailableFormats()=%s" % str(cb.GetAvailableFormats()))
print("HasHtmlFormat()=%s" % str(cb.HasHtmlFormat()))
if cb.HasHtmlFormat():
cb.GetFromClipboard()
print("prefix=>>>%s<<<END" % cb.prefix)
print("htmlClipboardVersion=>>>%s<<<END" % cb.htmlClipboardVersion)
print("GetSelection()=>>>%s<<<END" % cb.GetSelection())
print("GetFragment()=>>>%s<<<END" % cb.GetFragment())
print("GetHtml()=>>>%s<<<END" % cb.GetHtml())
print("GetSource()=>>>%s<<<END" % cb.GetSource())
if __name__ == '__main__':
def test_SimpleGetPutHtml():
data = "<p>Writing to the clipboard is <strong>easy</strong> with this code.</p>"
PutHtml(data)
if GetHtml() == data:
print("passed")
else:
print("failed")
test_SimpleGetPutHtml()
#DumpHtml()

You can do this using win32clipboard via the example listed here. It requires a little customisation setting the encoding to UTF-8 (as explained in the comments) but the end result in the clipboard will contain html like properties.

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new: Replacement for old
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As mentioned in the title, i'm trying to make a simple py script that can be run from terminal to do the following:
Find all JSON files in current working directory and nested folders (this part works well)
Load said files
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Any help about the need for the mentioned line and why it is used and how to use it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import urllib.request
import re
import json
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import socket
socket.setdefaulttimeout(10)
cache = {}
for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
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sid = fields[0]
uid = fields[1]
# url = 'http://twitter.com/%s/status/%s' % (uid, sid)
# print url
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str.replace is using replace in its static form (calling the method from the type-class str instead of an str object).
str.replace will actually need 3 arguments: the string to act on, the char or string to replace and the new char or string.
'abcd'.replace('d', 'z') is equivallent to str.replace('abcd', 'd', 'z'):
print('abcd'.replace('d', 'z'))
# abcz
print(str.replace('abcd', 'd', 'z'))
# abcz
I have accepted the solution kindly given by #DeepSpace as an answer as it helped me to realise how to overcome the problem I was facing. The code below can now execute under Python 3 if run from command prompt as follows (Please note that I executed this from Windows command prompt):
python download_tweets.py inpuot_file.tsv > output_file.tsv. The code follows:
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import urllib.request
import re
import json
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import socket
socket.setdefaulttimeout(10)
cache = {}
for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
fields = line.rstrip('\n').split('\t')
sid = fields[0]
uid = fields[1]
tweet = None
text = "Not Available"
if sid in cache:
text = cache[sid]
else:
try:
f = urllib.request.urlopen("http://twitter.com/%s/status/%s" % (uid, sid))
# print('URL: ', f.geturl())
# Thanks to Arturo!
html = str.replace(str(f.read(), 'utf-8'), "</html>", "")
# html = f.read().replace("</html>", "") + "</html>" # original line
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml") # added "lxml" as it was giving warnings
jstt = soup.find_all("p", "js-tweet-text")
tweets = list(set([x.get_text() for x in jstt]))
# print(len(tweets))
if (len(tweets)) > 1:
continue
text = tweets[0]
cache[sid] = tweets[0]
for j in soup.find_all("input", "json-data", id="init-data"):
js = json.loads(j['value'])
if "embedData" in js:
# if js.has_key("embedData"): # original line
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text = js["embedData"]["status"]["text"]
cache[sid] = text
break
except Exception as e:
print(e)
continue
if tweet is not None and tweet["id_str"] != sid:
text = "Not Available"
cache[sid] = "Not Available"
text = text.replace('\n', ' ', )
text = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', text)
# print(json.dumps("dump: ", tweet, indent=2))
print(" \t ".join(fields + [text]).encode('utf-8'))

Fail to store data in csv file through scraping

I try to scraping a webpage and extracting data ,then store all data in a csv file. Before adding ScrapeCallback class and calling it, everything works fine. However, it does not store any type of data except headers in the cvs file after adding the new class. Can anyone help me to figure out the problem?
import re
import urlparse
import urllib2
import time
from datetime import datetime
import robotparser
import Queue
import csv
import lxml.html
class ScrapeCallback:
# extract and store all data in a csv file
def __init__( self):
self.writer = csv.writer(open('countries.csv', 'w'))
self.fields = ('area', 'population', 'iso', 'country', 'capital', 'continent', 'tld', 'currency_code', 'currency_name', 'phone', 'postal_code_format', 'postal_code_regex', 'languages', 'neighbours')
self.writer.writerow( self.fields)
def __call__( self, url, html):
if re.search('/view/',url):
tree = lxml.html.fromstring(html)
row = []
for field in self.fields:
row.append(tree.cssselect('table > tr#places_{}__row > td.w2p_fw'.format(field))[0].text_content())
print row
self.writer.writerow(row)
def link_crawler(seed_url, link_regex=None, delay=5, max_depth=-1, max_urls=-1, headers=None, user_agent='wswp', proxy=None, num_retries=1, scrape_callback=None):
"""Crawl from the given seed URL following links matched by link_regex
"""
# the queue of URL's that still need to be crawled
crawl_queue = [seed_url]
# the URL's that have been seen and at what depth
seen = {seed_url: 0}
# track how many URL's have been downloaded
num_urls = 0
rp = get_robots(seed_url)
throttle = Throttle(delay)
headers = headers or {}
if user_agent:
headers['User-agent'] = user_agent
while crawl_queue:
url = crawl_queue.pop()
depth = seen[url]
# check url passes robots.txt restrictions
if rp.can_fetch(user_agent, url):
throttle.wait(url)
html = download(url, headers, proxy=proxy, num_retries=num_retries)
links = []
if scrape_callback:
links.extend(scrape_callback(url, html) or [])
if depth != max_depth:
# can still crawl further
if link_regex:
# filter for links matching our regular expression
links.extend(link for link in get_links(html) if re.match(link_regex, link))
for link in links:
link = normalize(seed_url, link)
# check whether already crawled this link
if link not in seen:
seen[link] = depth + 1
# check link is within same domain
if same_domain(seed_url, link):
# success! add this new link to queue
crawl_queue.append(link)
# check whether have reached downloaded maximum
num_urls += 1
if num_urls == max_urls:
break
else:
print 'Blocked by robots.txt:', url
class Throttle:
"""Throttle downloading by sleeping between requests to same domain
"""
def __init__(self, delay):
# amount of delay between downloads for each domain
self.delay = delay
# timestamp of when a domain was last accessed
self.domains = {}
def wait(self, url):
"""Delay if have accessed this domain recently
"""
domain = urlparse.urlsplit(url).netloc
last_accessed = self.domains.get(domain)
if self.delay > 0 and last_accessed is not None:
sleep_secs = self.delay - (datetime.now() - last_accessed).seconds
if sleep_secs > 0:
time.sleep(sleep_secs)
self.domains[domain] = datetime.now()
def download(url, headers, proxy, num_retries, data=None):
print 'Downloading:', url
request = urllib2.Request(url, data, headers)
opener = urllib2.build_opener()
if proxy:
proxy_params = {urlparse.urlparse(url).scheme: proxy}
opener.add_handler(urllib2.ProxyHandler(proxy_params))
try:
response = opener.open(request)
html = response.read()
code = response.code
except urllib2.URLError as e:
print 'Download error:', e.reason
html = ''
if hasattr(e, 'code'):
code = e.code
if num_retries > 0 and 500 <= code < 600:
# retry 5XX HTTP errors
html = download(url, headers, proxy, num_retries-1, data)
else:
code = None
return html
def normalize(seed_url, link):
"""Normalize this URL by removing hash and adding domain
"""
link, _ = urlparse.urldefrag(link) # remove hash to avoid duplicates
return urlparse.urljoin(seed_url, link)
def same_domain(url1, url2):
"""Return True if both URL's belong to same domain
"""
return urlparse.urlparse(url1).netloc == urlparse.urlparse(url2).netloc
def get_robots(url):
"""Initialize robots parser for this domain
"""
rp = robotparser.RobotFileParser()
rp.set_url(urlparse.urljoin(url, '/robots.txt'))
rp.read()
return rp
def get_links(html):
"""Return a list of links from html
"""
# a regular expression to extract all links from the webpage
webpage_regex = re.compile('<a[^>]+href=["\'](.*?)["\']', re.IGNORECASE)
# list of all links from the webpage
return webpage_regex.findall(html)
if __name__ == '__main__':
# link_crawler('http://example.webscraping.com', '/(index|view)', delay=0, num_retries=1, user_agent='BadCrawler')
# link_crawler('http://example.webscraping.com', '/(index|view)', delay=0, num_retries=1, max_depth=1, user_agent='GoodCrawler')
link_crawler('http://example.webscraping.com', '/(index|view)', max_depth =2, scrape_callback = ScrapeCallback())

Reading binary .SAVE files?

I was wondering how to open or read a binary file that has been saved in octave, with the extension .SAVE? I have tried opening it with MATLAB, using the 'load' function in octave, but nothing seems to be working. I'm trying to understand someone else's code and they have saved the output of a simulation in this file.
The Octave binary format is briefly described in the comments before the function read_binary_data() in load-save.cc.
Are you sure the file is in "Octave binary format". The file ending ".SAVE" can be choosen arbitrary so this could also be CSV, gzipped...
You can run "file yourfile.SAFE" and paste the output or check the first bytes of your file if they are "Octave-1-L" or "Octave-1-B".
If you want to use these files from another program than GNU Octave I would suggest loading it in Octave and safe it in an other format. See "help save" for a list of supported formats.
EDIT:
Because the initial poster asked: Of course you can use GNU Octave from the terminal (no need for the GUI and I don't now to which software part you refer when you are using the phrase "octave GUI", see here Octave FAQ). Just install it for your used platform install instructions on wiki.octave.org and run it.
Code for reading octave binary save files in python 2/3.
Tested on:
strings
single and double precision real and complex floats
various integer types
scalar, matrix and array
Unsupported:
struct
cell array
...
Python code:
# This code is public domain
from __future__ import print_function
import sys
from collections import OrderedDict
import numpy as np
if sys.version_info[0] > 2:
def tostr(s):
return s.decode('utf8')
def decode(s, encoding='utf8'):
return s.decode(encoding)
STR_ENCODING = 'utf8'
else:
def tostr(s):
return s
def decode(s, encoding='utf8'):
return unicode(s, encoding)
STR_ENCODING = None
DATA_TYPES = {
1: "scalar",
2: "matrix",
3: "complex scalar",
4: "complex matrix",
5: "old_string",
6: "range",
7: "string",
}
TYPE_CODES = {
0: "u1",
1: "u2",
2: "u4",
3: "i1",
4: "i2",
5: "i4",
6: "f4",
7: "f8",
8: "u8",
9: "i8",
}
DTYPES = {k: np.dtype(v) for k, v in TYPE_CODES.items()}
def loadoct(fd, encoding=STR_ENCODING):
"""
Read an octave binary file from the file handle fd, returning
an array of structures. If encoding is not None then convert
strings from bytes to unicode. Default is STR_ENCODING, which
is utf8 for python 3 and None for python 2, yielding arrays
of type str in each dialect.
"""
magic = fd.read(10)
assert(magic == b"Octave-1-L" or magic == b"Octave-1-B")
endian = "<" if magic[-1:] == b"L" else ">"
# Float type is 0: IEEE-LE, 1: IEEE-BE, 2: VAX-D, 3: VAX-G, 4: Cray
# Not used since Octave assumes IEEE format floats.
_float_format = fd.read(1)
len_dtype = np.dtype(endian + "i4")
def read_len():
len_bytes = fd.read(4)
if not len_bytes:
return None
return np.frombuffer(len_bytes, len_dtype)[0]
table = OrderedDict()
while True:
name_length = read_len()
if name_length is None: # EOF
break
name = tostr(fd.read(name_length))
doc_length = read_len()
doc = tostr(fd.read(doc_length)) if doc_length else ''
is_global = bool(ord(fd.read(1)))
data_type = ord(fd.read(1))
if data_type == 255:
type_str = tostr(fd.read(read_len()))
else:
type_str = DATA_TYPES[data_type]
#print("reading", name, type_str)
if type_str.endswith("scalar"):
if type_str == "scalar":
dtype = DTYPES[ord(fd.read(1))]
elif type_str == "complex scalar":
_ = fd.read(1)
dtype = np.dtype('complex128')
elif type_str == "float complex scalar":
_ = fd.read(1)
dtype = np.dtype('complex64')
else:
dtype = np.dtype(type_str[:-7])
dtype = dtype.newbyteorder(endian)
data = np.frombuffer(fd.read(dtype.itemsize), dtype)
table[name] = data[0]
elif type_str.endswith("matrix"):
ndims = read_len()
if ndims < 0:
ndims = -ndims
dims = np.frombuffer(fd.read(4*ndims), len_dtype)
else:
dims = (ndims, read_len())
count = np.prod(dims)
if type_str == "matrix":
dtype = DTYPES[ord(fd.read(1))]
elif type_str == "complex matrix":
_ = fd.read(1)
dtype = np.dtype('complex128')
elif type_str == "float complex matrix":
_ = fd.read(1)
dtype = np.dtype('complex64')
else:
dtype = np.dtype(type_str[:-7])
dtype = dtype.newbyteorder(endian)
data = np.frombuffer(fd.read(count*dtype.itemsize), dtype)
# Note: Use data.copy() to make a modifiable array.
table[name] = data.reshape(dims, order='F')
elif type_str == "old_string":
data = fd.read(read_len())
if encoding is not None:
data = decode(data, encoding)
table[name] = data
elif type_str in ("string", "sq_string"):
nrows = read_len()
if nrows < 0:
ndims = -nrows
dims = np.frombuffer(fd.read(4*ndims), len_dtype)
count = np.prod(dims)
fortran_order = np.frombuffer(fd.read(count), dtype='uint8')
c_order = np.ascontiguousarray(fortran_order.reshape(dims, order='F'))
data = c_order.view(dtype='|S'+str(dims[-1]))
if encoding is not None:
data = np.array([decode(s, encoding) for s in data.flat])
table[name] = data.reshape(dims[:-1])
else:
data = [fd.read(read_len()) for _ in range(nrows)]
if encoding is not None:
data = [decode(s, encoding) for s in data]
table[name] = np.array(data)
else:
raise NotImplementedError("unknown octave type "+type_str)
#print("read %s:%s"%(name, type_str), table[name])
return table
def _dump(filename, encoding=STR_ENCODING):
import gzip
if filename.endswith('.gz'):
with gzip.open(filename, 'rb') as fd:
table = loadoct(fd, encoding)
else:
with open(filename, 'rb') as fd:
table = loadoct(fd, encoding)
for k, v in table.items():
print(k, v)
if __name__ == "__main__":
#_dump(sys.argv[1], encoding='utf8') # unicode
#_dump(sys.argv[1], encoding=None) # bytes
_dump(sys.argv[1]) # str, encoding=STR_ENCODING