HTML to JSON Text Extractor

This function takes HTML content as input, parses it into an XML tree using the lxml library, then extracts text from all elements, and converts these texts into a JSON string.

Technology Stack : lxml, etree, HTMLParser, json

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def parse_html_to_json(html_content, encoding='utf-8'):
    from lxml import etree
    
    # Parse HTML content to XML
    parser = etree.HTMLParser()
    tree = etree.fromstring(html_content, parser)
    
    # Extract text from all elements
    texts = [element.text for element in tree.iter()]
    
    # Convert text list to JSON string
    import json
    json_data = json.dumps({'texts': texts})
    
    return json_data