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msaUtils Module

.htmlutils

Functions

sanitize async 

sanitize(dirty_html: Any) -> Optional[str]

Clean/Sanitize HTML using lxml.html.clean.Cleaner

Cleans the following:

  • Removes any <meta> tags
  • Removes any embedded objects (flash, iframes)
  • Removes any <link> tags
  • Removes any style tags.
  • Removes any processing instructions.
  • Removes any style attributes. Defaults to the value of the style option.
  • Removes any <script> tags.
  • Removes any Javascript, like an onclick attribute. Also removes stylesheets as they could contain Javascript.
  • Removes any comments.
  • Removes any frame-related tags
  • Removes any form tags
  • Removes Tags that aren't wrong, but are annoying. <blink> and <marquee>
  • Remove any tags that aren't standard parts of HTML.
  • Remove any attributes which are not frozenset(['src', 'color', 'href', 'title', 'class', 'name', 'id']),
  • Remove Tags ('span', 'font', 'div'), their content will get pulled up into the parent tag.
PARAMETER DESCRIPTION
dirty_html

Any, usually a html str

TYPE: Any

RETURNS DESCRIPTION
clean_html

Optional[str] cleaned html

TYPE: Optional[str]

Last update: September 24, 2022
Created: September 24, 2022