fb55/htmlparser2

Health v2 · maintenance only

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4788 stars · 402 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

htmlparser2 is a fast, forgiving HTML and XML parser for JavaScript and TypeScript, offering a low-allocation callback interface as well as DOM output via its ecosystem packages. It prioritizes speed over strict HTML spec compliance, making it the engine behind tools like cheerio.

Use cases

• parse html from web pages in node
• extract links and text from html documents
• parse xml feeds like rss and atom
• scrape websites with cheerio-style selectors
• stream-parse large html documents with minimal memory
• build a dom tree from malformed html

When to choose

• you need the fastest html/xml parsing in javascript
• input html may be malformed or non-spec-compliant
• you want a streaming, low-allocation callback-based parser
• you are building scraping or feed-processing tools

When to avoid

• you need strict HTML5 spec compliance and error correction (use parse5)
• you need a full browser-grade DOM with CSS selector querying out of the box

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser web-scraping parsers web-development developer-tools browser cross-platform html-parser xml-parser dom streaming forgiving-parser typescript nodejs

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