Java Library for Parsing HTML
By admin on Jun 10, 2012 in Java, open source
jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for extracting and manipulating data, using the best of DOM, CSS, and jquery-like methods.
jsoup implements the WHATWG HTML5 specification, and parses HTML to the same DOM as modern browsers do.
- scrape and parse HTML from a URL, file, or string
- find and extract data, using DOM traversal or CSS selectors
- manipulate the HTML elements, attributes, and text
- clean user-submitted content against a safe white-list, to prevent XSS attacks
- output tidy HTML
jsoup is designed to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild; from pristine and validating, to invalid tag-soup; jsoup will create a sensible parse tree.
1: Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://en.wikipedia.org/").get();
2: Elements newsHeadlines = doc.select("#mp-itn b a");
jsoup is an open source project distributed under the liberal MIT license. The source code is available at GitHub.
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