Method css

scrapling/parser.py:568–626

Search the current tree with CSS3 selectors **Important: It's recommended to use the identifier argument if you plan to use a different selector later and want to relocate the same element(s)** :param selector: The CSS3 selector to be used. :param adaptive:

(
        self,
        selector: str,
        identifier: str = "",
        adaptive: bool = False,
        auto_save: bool = False,
        percentage: int = 40,
    )

        return []

    def css(
        self,
        selector: str,
        identifier: str = "",
        adaptive: bool = False,
        auto_save: bool = False,
        percentage: int = 40,
    ) -> "Selectors":
        """Search the current tree with CSS3 selectors

        **Important:
        It's recommended to use the identifier argument if you plan to use a different selector later
        and want to relocate the same element(s)**

        :param selector: The CSS3 selector to be used.
        :param adaptive: Enabled will make the function try to relocate the element if it was 'saved' before
        :param identifier: A string that will be used to save/retrieve element's data in adaptive,
         otherwise the selector will be used.
        :param auto_save: Automatically save new elements for `adaptive` later
        :param percentage: The minimum percentage to accept while `adaptive` is working and not going lower than that.
         Be aware that the percentage calculation depends solely on the page structure, so don't play with this
         number unless you must know what you are doing!

        :return: `Selectors` class.
        """
        if self._is_text_node(self._root):
            return Selectors()

        try:
            if not self.__adaptive_enabled or "," not in selector:
                # No need to split selectors in this case, let's save some CPU cycles :)
                xpath_selector = _css_to_xpath(selector)
                return self.xpath(
                    xpath_selector,
                    identifier or selector,
                    adaptive,
                    auto_save,
                    percentage,
                )

            results = Selectors()
            for single_selector in split_selectors(selector):
                # I'm doing this only so the `save` function saves data correctly for combined selectors
                # Like using the ',' to combine two different selectors that point to different elements.
                xpath_selector = _css_to_xpath(single_selector.canonical())
                results += self.xpath(
                    xpath_selector,
                    identifier or single_selector.canonical(),
                    adaptive,
                    auto_save,
                    percentage,
                )

            return Selectors(results)
        except (
            SelectorError,
            SelectorSyntaxError,
        ) as e: