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Sanitize

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sanitize is a Python module for making sure various things (e.g. HTML) are safe to use. It was originally written by Mark Pilgrim and is distributed under the BSD license.

Usage

>>> from sanitize import HTML
>>> HTML('<b>hello')
'<b>hello</b>'
>>> HTML('<img>')
'<img />'
>>> HTML(("<b><b><b>hello")
... )
'<b><b><b>hello</b></b></b>'
>>> HTML('<img src="foo"/')
''
>>> HTML('<input type="checkbox" checked>')
'<input type="checkbox" checked="checked" />'
>>> # dangerous tags (a small sample)
... 
>>> HTML('safe<applet code="foo.class" codebase="http://example.com/"></applet> <b>description</b>')
'safe <b>description</b>'
>>> HTML('safe<frameset rows="*"><frame src="http://example.com/"></frameset> <b>description</b>')
'safe <b>description</b>'
>>> # bad protocols (a small sample)
>>> HTML('<a href="java' + chr(1) + 'script:foo">bar</a>')
'<a href="#foo">bar</a>'
>>> HTML('<a href="vbscript:foo">bar</a>')
'<a href="#foo">bar</a>'
>>> 

To see more usage examples see tests/test_sanitize_html.py.

Installation

python-sanitize is available on pypi

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sanitize

So easily install it by pip:

pip install sanitize

Or by easy_install:

$ easy_install sanitize

Another way is by cloning python-sanitize's git repository

$ git clone git://github.com/Alir3z4/python-sanitize.git

Then install it by running

$ python setup.py install

Tests

To run unit tests:

$ python setup.py test

License

Sanitize is distributed under BSD license.