Html parser

WIP - work in progress, use at your own risk

A simple and general purpose html parser, using Pest.

What is it not

It's not a high-performance browser-grade parser
It's not 100% complient with html
It's not a parser that includes node selection and dom manipulation

If your requirements matches any of the above, then you're most likely looking for any of the following crates:

html5ever
kuchiki
scraper
or other crates using the html5ever parser

Features

Parse html document
Parse html fragments
Parse custom, non-standard, elements
Doesn't include comments in the AST
Removes dangling elements

Examples

Parse html document

    use html_parser::HtmlParser;

    fn main() {
        let html = r#"
            <!doctype html>
            <html lang="en">
                <head>
                    <meta charset="utf-8">
                    <title>Html parser</title>
                </head>
                <body>
                    <h1 id="a" class="b c">Hello world</h1>
                    </h1> <!-- dangling nodes are removed -->
                </body>
            </html>"#;

        assert!(HtmlParser::parse(html).is_ok());
    }

Parse html fragment

    use html_parser::HtmlParser;

    fn main() {
        let html = "<div id=cat />";
        assert!(HtmlParser::parse(html).is_ok());
    }

Print to json

    use html_parser::{HtmlParser, Result};

    fn main() -> Result<()> {
        let html = "<div id=cat />";
        let json = HtmlParser::parse(html)?.to_json_pretty()?;
        println!("{}", json);
        Ok(())
    }

Contributions

I would love to get some feedback if you find my little project useful. Please feel free to highlight issues with my code or submit a PR in case you want to improve it.

html_parser 0.2.1