Possible to get HTML for winning content?

[kevzettler]

Is there any method to get the HTML for the winning block content? I'd like to also get img code pre elements and preserve formatting with p and heading tags where possible.

[matt-peters]

Unfortunately not in an easy manner. You can get the lxml etree object for the start tag of each block then use it to reconstruct the HTML but that's not easy to do. If you'd like to try to implement, you an start by passing blocks=True to analyze when extracting the content. This will return a list of block objects for the extracted content. Then block.features['block_start_element'] contains the object.

Something like:

blocks = content_extractor.analyze(html, blocks=True)
start_elements  = [block.features['block_start_element'] for block in blocks]

[rferreiraperez]

It would be possible to keep at least the line breaks in result text?

[MSusik]

@rferreiraperez A workaround has been shown in #22

EDIT:

In current version, you can get blocks with: dragnet.extract_content_and_comments(site, as_blocks=True)

[lukaspistelak]

blocks = content_extractor.analyze(html, blocks=True) start_elements = [block.features['block_start_element'] for block in blocks]

AttributeError: 'Extractor' object has no attribute 'analyze'