lexborisov/myhtml

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1717 stars · 156 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

MyHTML is a fast, fully HTML5-conformant HTML parser written in pure C99 with no external dependencies, using threads for asynchronous parsing and tree building. It offers high- and low-level APIs, DOM manipulation, chunked parsing, and support for 39 character encodings, and is now superseded by the Lexbor project.

Use cases

• parse html documents in c
• extract data from web pages
• build a dom tree from html5 markup
• scrape websites with a fast native parser
• detect and handle character encodings in html
• parse html fragments or streaming chunks

When to choose

• you need a dependency-free, pure C HTML5 parser with threaded performance
• you must parse HTML in a C or C++ project with bindings for other languages
• you need strict HTML5 spec conformance validated by html5lib-tests

When to avoid

• starting a new project — use Lexbor instead, as the author recommends
• you need CSS selector support or rendering features
• you want a parser in a higher-level language without writing bindings

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

parser web-scraping parsers web-development developer-tools cross-platform c cpp html5 html-parsing threaded pure-c dom character-encoding superseded-by-lexbor

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