---
id: cssselect2
version: "0.9.0"
license: unclear
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: aging
---

# cssselect2 — CSS selectors for Python ElementTree

License: permissive · Maintenance: aging · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install cssselect2
uv add cssselect2
poetry add cssselect2

## Description

cssselect2 is a straightforward implementation of CSS4 Selectors for markup
documents (HTML, XML, etc.) that can be read by ElementTree-like parsers
(including cElementTree, lxml, html5lib, etc.)

* Free software: BSD license
* For Python 3.10+, tested on CPython and PyPy
* Documentation: https://doc.courtbouillon.org/cssselect2
* Changelog: https://github.com/Kozea/cssselect2/releases
* Code, issues, tests: https://github.com/Kozea/cssselect2
* Code of conduct: https://www.courtbouillon.org/code-of-conduct.html
* Professional support: https://www.courtbouillon.org
* Donation: https://opencollective.com/courtbouillon

cssselect2 has been created and developed by Kozea (https://kozea.fr/).
Professional support, maintenance and community management is provided by
CourtBouillon (https://www.courtbouillon.org/).

Copyrights are retained by their contributors, no copyright assignment is
required to contribute to cssselect2. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any
contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion is licensed under the BSD
3-clause license, without any additional terms or conditions. For full
authorship information, see the version control history.

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

cssselect2 parses and matches CSS4 selectors against markup documents (HTML, XML) using ElementTree-like parsers, enabling programmatic element selection and styling queries.

Verdict: cssselect2 is a stable, low-friction CSS selector library suitable for production use in document processing pipelines. No known vulnerabilities, permissive licensing, and broad Python 3.10+ support make it a straightforward choice; the aging maintenance status (182 days since last release) is typical for a mature, feature-complete tool.

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