jhy/jsoup

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

jsoup is a Java library for parsing, manipulating, and cleaning real-world HTML and XML, implementing the WHATWG HTML5 specification to produce the same DOM as modern browsers. It provides URL fetching, CSS selector and XPath-based data extraction, DOM manipulation, and safelist-based HTML sanitization to prevent XSS attacks.

Use cases

• scrape and extract data from web pages in Java
• parse messy real-world HTML into a DOM tree
• sanitize user-submitted HTML to prevent XSS
• extract elements using CSS selectors or XPath
• fetch and parse a URL's HTML content
• clean and tidy up HTML output
• manipulate HTML elements and attributes programmatically

When to choose

• you need a robust, spec-compliant HTML parser on the JVM
• you are building a web scraper or crawler in Java or Kotlin
• you need to sanitize untrusted HTML against XSS in a Java application
• you want browser-like parsing of invalid tag-soup HTML
• you are working on Android and need HTML parsing

When to avoid

• you need a full headless browser with JavaScript execution
• you are parsing JSON or other non-HTML data formats
• you need a general-purpose XML validator or XSLT processor
• your project is not on the JVM

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser web-scraping security http-client web-development parsers crawlers security jvm html-parser css-selectors xss-sanitization dom-manipulation html5 xml android

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