Comparison of HTML parsers
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HTML parsers are software for automated Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) parsing. They have two main purposes:
- HTML traversal: offer an interface for programmers to easily access and modify the "HTML string code". Canonical example: DOM parsers.
- HTML clean: to fix invalid HTML and to improve the layout and indent style of the resulting markup. Canonical example: HTML Tidy.
| Parser | License | Implementation language(s) | Latest date* | HTML parsing[1] | HTML5-compliant parsing | Clean HTML** | Update HTML*** |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTML Tidy | W3C license | ANSI C | 2021年07月17日[2] | Yes[3] | Yes | Yes[3] | Yes |
| HtmlUnit | Apache License 2.0 | Java | 2023年10月31日[4] | Yes | ? | No | No |
| Beautiful Soup | MIT License | Python | 2023年04月07日[5] | Yes | Yes | ? | No |
| jsoup | MIT License | Java | 2025年08月25日[6] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Parser | License | Implementation language(s) | Latest date* | HTML Parsing | HTML5-compliant Parsing | Clean HTML** | Update HTML*** |
- * Latest release (of significant changes) date.
- ** sanitize (generating standard-compatible web-page, reduce spam, etc.) and clean (strip out surplus presentational tags, remove XSS code, etc.) HTML code.
- *** Updates HTML4.X to XHTML or to HTML5, converting deprecated tags (ex. CENTER) to valid ones (ex. DIV with
style="text-align:center;").
References
[edit ]- ^ "HTML Standard". html.spec.whatwg.org. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013.
- ^ "Release 5.8.0 · htacg/tidy-html5". GitHub.
- ^ a b "HTML Tidy". www.html-tidy.org.
- ^ "Release HtmlUnit 3.7.0 · HtmlUnit/htmlunit". GitHub.
- ^ "Index of /software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/download/4.12". www.crummy.com.
- ^ "jsoup release 1.21.2 (2025-Aug-25)". jsoup.org.