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songyy
songyy

Reputation: 4573

Tutorial for NodeJS's htmlparser?

I don't really understand the readme of htmlparser.. and I searched over the internet but cannot find a proper tutorial for it (or other NodeJS parsers).

I believe for most of the time if there's no tutorial for a pretty complete and old library it's mostly because that it's easy to do thus people don't really feel the need to write tutorial for it... But I found NodeJS html parser is pretty hard to understand...

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6201

Answers (1)

Tim Brown
Tim Brown

Reputation: 3241

You should check out htmlparser2. It's the newer htmlparser and it's got a decent readme. The way I tend to use it isn't streamish, and thus looks something like this:

handler = new htmlparser.DomHandler(function(err, dom) {
    // ... DO CODE HERE
})
new htmlparser.Parser(handler).parseComplete(html_string)

For the code inside the handler function, I use soupselect because it's documented and I'm lazy, but htmlparser2 guys suggest domutils, but it has no documentation.

Upvotes: 6

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