There is no built-in HTML parser (yet), but some very good ones are available, in particular Nokogiri. Meta-answer: For common needs like these, I’d recommend checking out the Ruby Toolbox site. You’ll notice that Nokogiri is the top recommendation for HTML parsers
I searched “python parse html” and this was the first result: https://docs.python.org/2/library/htmlparser.html This code is taken from the python docs from HTMLParser import HTMLParser # create a subclass and override the handler methods class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser): def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs): print “Encountered a start tag:”, tag def handle_endtag(self, tag): print “Encountered an end tag :”, tag … Read more