What HTML parsing libraries do you recommend in Java

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I want to parse some HTML in order to find the values of some attributes/tags etc.

What HTML parsers do you recommend? Any pros and cons?

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 25 '08 at 19:22

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NekoHTML, TagSoup, and JTidy will allow you to parse HTML and then process with XML tools, like XPath.

answered Aug 25 '08 at 19:22

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XPath is the way for HTML parsing, it helps in case of bad formed HTML as well where regex fails. – Sumit Ghosh May 14 '10 at 10:09

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 25 '08 at 18:55

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I have tried HTML Parser which is dead simple.

answered Aug 25 '08 at 18:55

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I have used HTML parser on a project and it worked exactly as expected – Craig Angus Sep 27 '08 at 00:21
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but there is not much tutorials available... – Lily Jul 07 '09 at 14:25
I've noticed a lot of javascript snippets (and element attributes) creeping into my supposedly "text node" extractions. There have also been some cases where malformed HTML caused the whole parsing operation to fail. So I'm looking to replace the htmlparser library in my own project with something a little better. – benjismith Mar 16 '11 at 18:02

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 25 '08 at 18:56

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Do you need to do a full parse of the HTML? If you're just looking for specific values within the contents (a specific tag/param), then a simple regular expression might be enough, and could very well be faster.

answered Aug 25 '08 at 18:56

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