F# html parsing

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What other options currently exist for parsing html in F#? Currently have some regular expressions but would prefer something like Pythons Beautiful Soup http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ or be able to using an api similar to jQuery from F#.

I have seen the fslex and fparsec but I'm not sure if someone else has already built some html parsing library with these or I would have to write my own.

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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I have not tried using this (from F# or otherwise) but the Html Agility Pack seems to be the preferred solution for .NET.

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answered Nov 04 '10 at 09:48

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I've been using this for over a year now and really like it. I ran into one XPath bug, but otherwise it's been totally reliable. – Daniel Nov 04 '10 at 19:36
What was the XPath bug? I've been using this library with XPath and so far it's been good. Hoping for some other options though. – yanta Nov 06 '10 at 07:03
@yanta, apparently "Html Agility Pack now supports Linq to Objects (via a LINQ to Xml Like interface)." Though I'm unsure how that can be leverage through F#. – Stephen Swensen Nov 08 '10 at 00:54

andrew · Answer 2 · 2017-03-06T15:22:25.297

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Today there is an F# Data library that has an Html Parser and ability of Html CSS Selectors (same as jQuery selectors). Also library has Html Type Provider.

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answered Mar 06 '17 at 08:31

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