Brik

A Rust library for parsing, manipulating, and querying HTML documents using CSS selectors.

About

This is a fork of Kuchiki (朽木) by way of Brave's Kuchikiki fork. The original Kuchiki is now unmaintained.

Brik is a building block for HTML manipulation - simple, solid, and stackable.

This fork maintains compatibility with current servo crates (html5ever, selectors, etc.) and provides ongoing updates. See the Changelog for version history and updates.

Features

• ✨ Full HTML5 parsing via html5ever
• 🎯 CSS selector queries via selectors
• 🌳 Tree manipulation - append, prepend, insert, detach nodes
• 🔍 Node inspection - traverse ancestors, siblings, descendants
• 📝 Serialization - convert trees back to HTML
• 🛡️ Optional safe mode - build without unsafe code

Installation

⚠️ Status: Alpha - Passes all tests but not yet recommended for production use.

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
brik = "0.8"

Migrating from Kuchiki or Kuchikiki

This migration applies to both Kuchiki and Kuchikiki.

[dependencies]
brik = "0.8"  # Changed from "kuchiki" or "kuchikiki"

Update your code:

use brik::parse_html;  // Changed from kuchiki or kuchikiki
use brik::traits::*;

Quick Start

use brik::parse_html;
use brik::traits::*;

// Parse HTML and query with CSS selectors
let document = parse_html().one("<p class='greeting'>Hello, world!</p>");
let greeting = document.select_first(".greeting").unwrap();
println!("{}", greeting.text_contents());

For more detailed examples, see the examples directory.

Feature Flags

Safe Mode

By default, brik uses unsafe code for performance. To build without any unsafe blocks:

[dependencies]
brik = { version = "0.8", features = ["safe"] }

Or via command line:

cargo build --features safe
cargo test --features safe

Note: This only affects brik's code, not its dependencies.

Namespace Support

XML/SVG namespace support is available via the namespaces feature:

[dependencies]
brik = { version = "0.8", features = ["namespaces"] }

This enables:

• Namespace-aware CSS selectors (e.g., svg|rect, [xlink|href])
• Element namespace inspection methods (namespace_uri(), prefix())
• Namespace-aware attribute methods (get_ns(), insert_ns(), etc.)
• Filtering elements by namespace

Or via command line:

cargo build --features namespaces
cargo test --features namespaces
cargo run --example namespaces --features namespaces

Note: HTML-only users can omit this feature to reduce binary size.

Documentation

Full API documentation is available at docs.rs/brik.

Examples

Run examples with:

cargo run --example quickstart
cargo run --example find_matches

See the examples directory for all available examples.

Security

See the Security Policy for information on reporting vulnerabilities.

Credits

This project builds on the work of:

• Original Kuchiki library: kuchiki-rs/kuchiki by Simon Sapin
• Brave fork: brave/kuchikiki maintained by the Brave Authors and Ralph Giles

Brik is maintained by Adam Mill (@theroyalwhee0)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see our Contributing Guidelines and Code of Conduct before submitting a Pull Request.

License

Licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.