@web/parse5-utils
Advanced tools
@web/parse5-utils is a utility library for working with the parse5 HTML parser. It provides a set of helper functions to manipulate and query the parse5 AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) more easily.
Querying Elements
This feature allows you to query elements from the parse5 AST using CSS selectors. In the example, it queries all <p> elements from the parsed HTML.
const { parse } = require('parse5');
const { queryAll } = require('@web/parse5-utils');
const html = '<div><p>Hello</p><p>World</p></div>';
const document = parse(html);
const paragraphs = queryAll(document, 'p');
console.log(paragraphs.length); // 2Manipulating Elements
This feature allows you to manipulate elements within the parse5 AST. In the example, it appends a new <p> element with text 'Hello World' to an existing <div>.
const { parse, serialize } = require('parse5');
const { append, createElement } = require('@web/parse5-utils');
const html = '<div></div>';
const document = parse(html);
const div = document.childNodes[0].childNodes[1];
const newElement = createElement('p', {}, 'Hello World');
append(div, newElement);
console.log(serialize(document)); // <html><head></head><body><div><p>Hello World</p></div></body></html>Removing Elements
This feature allows you to remove elements from the parse5 AST. In the example, it removes the first <p> element from the parsed HTML.
const { parse, serialize } = require('parse5');
const { remove } = require('@web/parse5-utils');
const html = '<div><p>Hello</p><p>World</p></div>';
const document = parse(html);
const paragraph = document.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[0];
remove(paragraph);
console.log(serialize(document)); // <html><head></head><body><div><p>World</p></div></body></html>Cheerio is a fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server. It parses HTML and XML and provides a jQuery-like API for manipulating the resulting DOM. Compared to @web/parse5-utils, Cheerio offers a more familiar API for those used to jQuery, but it is not based on parse5.
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Utils for using parse5.
Examples:
import { parse } from 'parse5';
import { createElement, getTagName, appendChild, findElement } from '@web/parse5-utils';
const doc = parse(`
<html>
<body>
<my-element></my-element>
<div id="foo"></div>
</body>
</html>`);
const body = findElement(doc, e => getTagName(e) === 'body');
const script = createElement('script', { src: './foo.js' });
appendChild(body, script);
import { parse } from 'parse5';
import { getTagName, getAttribute, findElements } from '@web/parse5-utils';
const doc = parse(`
<html>
<body>
<script src="./a.js"></script>
<script type="module" src="./b.js"></script>
<script type="module" src="./c.js"></script>
</body>
</html>`);
const allModuleScripts = findElements(
doc,
e => getTagName(e) === 'script' && getAttribute(e, 'type') === 'module',
);
appendToDocument and prependToDocument will inject a snippet of HTML into the page, making sure it is executed last or first respectively.
It tries to avoid changing the formatting of the original file, using parse5 to find out the location of body and head tags and string concatenation in the original code to do the actual injection. In case of incomplete or invalid HTML it may fall back parse5 to generate a valid document and inject using AST manipulation.
import { prependToDocument, appendToDocument } from '@web/parse5-utils';
const html = '<html><body></body></html>';
const htmlWithInjectedScript = appendToDocument(
html,
'<scrip type="module" src="./injected-script.js"></script>',
);
FAQs
Utils for using parse5
The npm package @web/parse5-utils receives a total of 95,049 weekly downloads. As such, @web/parse5-utils popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @web/parse5-utils demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 7 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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