htmlparser2
A forgiving HTML/XML/RSS parser. The parser can handle streams and provides a callback interface.
Installation
A live demo of htmlparser2 is available here.
Usage
Output (simplified):
Documentation
Read more about the parser and its options in the wiki.
Get a DOM
The DomHandler
(known as DefaultHandler
in the original htmlparser
module) produces a DOM (document object model) that can be manipulated using the DomUtils
helper.
The DomHandler
, while still bundled with this module, was moved to its own module. Have a look at it for further information.
Parsing RSS/RDF/Atom Feeds
Note: While the provided feed handler works for most feeds, you might want to use danmactough/node-feedparser, which is much better tested and actively maintained.
Performance
After having some artificial benchmarks for some time, @AndreasMadsen published his htmlparser-benchmark
, which benchmarks HTML parses based on real-world websites.
At the time of writing, the latest versions of all supported parsers show the following performance characteristics on Travis CI (please note that Travis doesn't guarantee equal conditions for all tests):
How does this module differ from node-htmlparser?
This is a fork of the htmlparser
module. The main difference is that this is intended to be used only with node (it runs on other platforms using browserify). htmlparser2
was rewritten multiple times and, while it maintains an API that's compatible with htmlparser
in most cases, the projects don't share any code anymore.
The parser now provides a callback interface close to sax.js (originally targeted at readabilitySAX). As a result, old handlers won't work anymore.
The DefaultHandler
and the RssHandler
were renamed to clarify their purpose (to DomHandler
and FeedHandler
). The old names are still available when requiring htmlparser2
, your code should work as expected.
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