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Comparison of HTML parsers

HTML parsers are software for automated Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) parsing. They have two main purposes:

  • HTML traversal: offer an interface for programmers to easily access and modify the "HTML string code". Canonical example: DOM parsers.
  • HTML clean: to fix invalid HTML and to improve the layout and indent style of the resulting markup. Canonical example: HTML Tidy.
Parser License Implementation language(s) Latest date* HTML parsing[1] HTML5-compliant parsing Clean HTML** Update HTML***
HTML Tidy W3C license ANSI C 2021-07-17[2] Yes[3] Yes Yes[3] Yes
HtmlUnit Apache License 2.0 Java 2023-10-31[4] Yes ? No No
Beautiful Soup MIT License Python 2023-04-07[5] Yes Yes ? No
jsoup MIT License Java 2025-08-25[6] Yes Yes Yes Yes
Parser License Implementation language(s) Latest date* HTML Parsing HTML5-compliant Parsing Clean HTML** Update HTML***
* Latest release (of significant changes) date.
** sanitize (generating standard-compatible web-page, reduce spam, etc.) and clean (strip out surplus presentational tags, remove XSS code, etc.) HTML code.
*** Updates HTML4.X to XHTML or to HTML5, converting deprecated tags (ex. CENTER) to valid ones (ex. DIV with style="text-align:center;").

References

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  1. ^ "HTML Standard". html.spec.whatwg.org. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013.
  2. ^ "Release 5.8.0 · htacg/tidy-html5". GitHub.
  3. ^ a b "HTML Tidy". www.html-tidy.org.
  4. ^ "Release HtmlUnit 3.7.0 · HtmlUnit/htmlunit". GitHub.
  5. ^ "Index of /software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/download/4.12". www.crummy.com.
  6. ^ "jsoup release 1.21.2 (2025-Aug-25)". jsoup.org.
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