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w3lib
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Overview
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This is a Python library of web-related functions, such as:

* remove comments, or tags from HTML snippets
* extract base url from HTML snippets
* translate entites on HTML strings
* convert raw HTTP headers to dicts and vice-versa
* construct HTTP auth header
* converting HTML pages to unicode
* sanitize urls (like browsers do)
* extract arguments from urls

Requirements
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Python 2.7 or Python 3.5+

Install
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``pip install w3lib``

Documentation
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See http://w3lib.readthedocs.org/

License
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The w3lib library is licensed under the BSD license.
