I do a lot of HTML parsing in my line of work. Up until now, I was using the HtmlUnit headless browser for parsing and browser automation. Now, I want to separate both the tasks. I want to use a light HTML parser because it takes much time in HtmlUnit to first load a page, … Read more
It seems like every question on stackoverflow where the asker is using regex to grab some information from HTML will inevitably have an “answer” that says not to use regex to parse HTML. Why not? I’m aware that there are quote-unquote “real” HTML parsers out there like Beautiful Soup, and I’m sure they’re powerful and … Read more
I’m looking for an HTML Parser module for Python that can help me get the tags in the form of Python lists/dictionaries/objects. If I have a document of the form: <html> <head>Heading</head> <body attr1=’val1′> <div class=”container”> <div id=’class’>Something here</div> <div>Something else</div> </div> </body> </html> then it should give me a way to access the nested … Read more
This question already has answers here: Strip HTML from Text JavaScript (41 answers) Closed 2 years ago. How can I strip the HTML from a string in JavaScript? 4 Answers 4
I want to parse a string which contains HTML text. I want to do it in JavaScript. I tried the Pure JavaScript HTML Parser library but it seems that it parses the HTML of my current page, not from a string. Because when I try the code below, it changes the title of my page: … Read more
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Self plug: I have just released a new Java HTML parser: jsoup. I mention it here because I think it will do what you are after. Its party trick is a CSS selector syntax to find elements, e.g.: String html = “<html><head><title>First parse</title></head>” + “<body><p>Parsed HTML into a doc.</p></body></html>”; Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html); Elements links = … Read more
