parse5
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Package description
The parse5 npm package is a fast full-featured specification-compliant HTML parser for Node.js. It allows users to parse HTML documents and manipulate the resulting document tree structure. The package provides a variety of modules for parsing, serializing, and tree adaptation based on the DOM (Document Object Model) interface.
Parsing HTML
This feature allows you to parse an HTML string into a document tree that can be manipulated or queried.
const parse5 = require('parse5');
const html = '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>Hi there!</body></html>';
const document = parse5.parse(html);Serializing Document
This feature enables you to serialize a document tree back into an HTML string.
const parse5 = require('parse5');
const document = parse5.parse('<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>Hi there!</body></html>');
const html = parse5.serialize(document);Streaming
This feature allows you to use parse5 in a streaming mode, which is useful for processing large HTML documents without loading them entirely into memory.
const parse5 = require('parse5');
const fs = require('fs');
const file = fs.createReadStream('example.html');
const parser = new parse5.SAXParser();
parser.on('text', (text) => {
console.log(text);
});
file.pipe(parser);Tree Adapters
This feature allows you to use different tree adapters to interact with the parsed document tree in a way that is compatible with other libraries or your own custom requirements.
const parse5 = require('parse5');
const htmlparser2Adapter = require('parse5-htmlparser2-tree-adapter');
const html = '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>Hi there!</body></html>';
const document = parse5.parse(html, { treeAdapter: htmlparser2Adapter });Cheerio is a fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server. It uses a very similar syntax to jQuery, allowing for manipulation of the elements in the parsed document tree. Cheerio is generally faster than parse5 for querying documents but does not strictly adhere to the HTML5 specification.
jsdom is a pure-JavaScript implementation of many web standards, notably the WHATWG DOM and HTML Standards, for use with Node.js. It creates a DOM environment similar to that provided by web browsers, including a window object. jsdom is more feature-rich than parse5, providing a complete emulation of a web browser's environment, but it is also heavier and slower for simple parsing tasks.
htmlparser2 is a forgiving HTML and XML parser. It is fast and has a simple API, but unlike parse5, it does not strictly adhere to the HTML5 parsing specification. It is suitable for parsing non-standard or malformed HTML.
Readme
Fast full-featured HTML parser for Node. Based on WHATWG HTML5 specification.
To build TestCafé we needed fast and ready for production HTML parser for node.js, which will parse HTML as a modern browser's parser.
Existing solutions were either too slow or their output was too inaccurate. So, this is how parse5 was born.
$ npm install parse5
var Parser = require('parse5').Parser;
//Instantiate parser
var parser = new Parser();
//Then feed it with an HTML document
var document = parser.parse('<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>Hi there!</body></html>')
//Now let's parse HTML-snippet
var fragment = parser.parseFragment('<title>Parse5 is fucking awesome!</title><h1>42</h1>');
Check out this benchmark.
Starting benchmark. Fasten your seatbelts...
html5 (https://github.com/aredridel/html5) x 0.18 ops/sec ±5.92% (5 runs sampled)
htmlparser (https://github.com/tautologistics/node-htmlparser/) x 3.83 ops/sec ±42.43% (14 runs sampled)
htmlparser2 (https://github.com/fb55/htmlparser2) x 4.05 ops/sec ±39.27% (15 runs sampled)
parse5 (https://github.com/inikulin/parse5) x 3.04 ops/sec ±51.81% (13 runs sampled)
Fastest is htmlparser2 (https://github.com/fb55/htmlparser2),parse5 (https://github.com/inikulin/parse5)
So, parse5 is as fast as simple specification incompatible parsers and ~15-times(!) faster than the current specification compatible parser available for the node.
Test data is adopted from html5lib project. Parser is covered by more than 8000 test cases. To run tests:
$ node test/run_tests.js
You can create a custom tree adapter so parse5 can work with your own DOM-tree implementation. Just pass your adapter implementation to the parser's constructor as an argument:
var Parser = require('parse5').Parser;
var myTreeAdapter = {
//Adapter methods...
};
//Instantiate parser
var parser = new Parser(myTreeAdapter);
Sample implementation can be found here.
The custom tree adapter should implement all methods exposed via exports in the sample implementation.
If you have any questions, please feel free to create an issue here on github.
FAQs
HTML parser and serializer.
The npm package parse5 receives a total of 29,803,428 weekly downloads. As such, parse5 popularity was classified as popular.
We found that parse5 demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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