# Fast HTML Parser [](http://badge.fury.io/js/node-html-parser) [](https://actions-badge.atrox.dev/taoqf/node-html-parser/goto?ref=main)
Fast HTML Parser is a _very fast_ HTML parser. Which will generate a simplified
DOM tree, with element query support.
Per the design, it intends to parse massive HTML files in lowest price, thus the
performance is the top priority. For this reason, some malformatted HTML may not
be able to parse correctly, but most usual errors are covered (eg. HTML4 style
no closing `<td>` etc).
## Install
```shell
cargo add node-html-parser
```
> Note: when using Fast HTML Parser in a Typescript project the minimum Typescript version supported is `^4.1.2`.
## Performance
-- 2022-08-10
```shell
html-parser :24.1595 ms/file ± 18.7667
htmljs-parser :4.72064 ms/file ± 5.67689
html-dom-parser :2.18055 ms/file ± 2.96136
html5parser :1.69639 ms/file ± 2.17111
cheerio :12.2122 ms/file ± 8.10916
parse5 :6.50626 ms/file ± 4.02352
htmlparser2 :2.38179 ms/file ± 3.42389
htmlparser :17.4820 ms/file ± 128.041
high5 :3.95188 ms/file ± 2.52313
node-html-parser:2.04288 ms/file ± 1.25203
node-html-parser (last release):2.00527 ms/file ± 1.21317
```
Tested with [htmlparser-benchmark](https://github.com/AndreasMadsen/htmlparser-benchmark).
## Usage
```ts
import { parse } from 'node-html-parser';
const root = parse('<ul id="list"><li>Hello World</li></ul>');
console.log(root.firstChild.structure);
// ul#list
// li
// #text
console.log(root.querySelector('#list'));
// { tagName: 'ul',
// rawAttrs: 'id="list"',
// childNodes:
// [ { tagName: 'li',
// rawAttrs: '',
// childNodes: [Object],
// classNames: [] } ],
// id: 'list',
// classNames: [] }
console.log(root.toString());
// <ul id="list"><li>Hello World</li></ul>
root.set_content('<li>Hello World</li>');
root.toString(); // <li>Hello World</li>
```
```js
var HTMLParser = require('node-html-parser');
var root = HTMLParser.parse('<ul id="list"><li>Hello World</li></ul>');
```
## Global Methods
### parse(data[, options])
Parse the data provided, and return the root of the generated DOM.
- **data**, data to parse
- **options**, parse options
```js
{
lowerCaseTagName: false, comment: false, fixNestedATags: false, parseNoneClosedTags: false, voidTag: {
tags: ['area', 'base', 'br', 'col', 'embed', 'hr', 'img', 'input', 'link', 'meta', 'param', 'source', 'track', 'wbr'], closingSlash: true },
blockTextElements: {
script: true, noscript: true, style: true, pre: true }
}
```
### valid(data[, options])
Parse the data provided, return true if the given data is valid, and return false if not.
## Class
```mermaid
classDiagram
direction TB
class HTMLElement{
this trimRight()
this removeWhitespace()
Node[] querySelectorAll(string selector)
Node querySelector(string selector)
HTMLElement[] getElementsByTagName(string tagName)
Node closest(string selector)
Node appendChild(Node node)
this insertAdjacentHTML('beforebegin' | 'afterbegin' | 'beforeend' | 'afterend' where, string html)
this setAttribute(string key, string value)
this setAttributes(Record string, string attrs)
this removeAttribute(string key)
string getAttribute(string key)
this exchangeChild(Node oldNode, Node newNode)
this removeChild(Node node)
string toString()
this set_content(string content)
this set_content(Node content)
this set_content(Node[] content)
this remove()
this replaceWith((string | Node)[] ...nodes)
ClassList classList
HTMLElement clone()
HTMLElement getElementById(string id)
string text
string rawText
string tagName
string structuredText
string structure
Node firstChild
Node lastChild
Node nextSibling
HTMLElement nextElementSibling
Node previousSibling
HTMLElement previousElementSibling
string innerHTML
string outerHTML
string textContent
Record<string, string> attributes
[number, number] range
}
class Node{
<<abstract>>
string toString()
Node clone()
this remove()
number nodeType
string innerText
string textContent
}
class ClassList{
add(string c)
replace(string c1, string c2)
remove(string c)
toggle(string c)
boolean contains(string c)
number length
string[] value
string toString()
}
class CommentNode{
CommentNode clone()
string toString()
}
class TextNode{
TextNode clone()
string toString()
string rawText
string trimmedRawText
string trimmedText
string text
boolean isWhitespace
}
Node --|> TextNode
Node ..> ClassList
```
## HTMLElement Methods
### trimRight()
Trim element from right (in block) after seeing pattern in a TextNode.
### removeWhitespace()
Remove whitespaces in this sub tree.
### querySelectorAll(selector)
Query CSS selector to find matching nodes.
Note: Full range of CSS3 selectors supported since v3.0.0.
### querySelector(selector)
Query CSS Selector to find matching node. `null` if not found.
### getElementsByTagName(tagName)
Get all elements with the specified tagName.
Note: Use * for all elements.
### closest(selector)
Query closest element by css selector. `null` if not found.
### before(...nodesOrStrings)
Insert one or multiple nodes or text before the current element. Does not work on root.
### after(...nodesOrStrings)
Insert one or multiple nodes or text after the current element. Does not work on root.
### prepend(...nodesOrStrings)
Insert one or multiple nodes or text to the first position of an element's child nodes.
### append(...nodesOrStrings)
Insert one or multiple nodes or text to the last position of an element's child nodes.
This is similar to appendChild, but accepts arbitrarily many nodes and converts strings to text nodes.
### appendChild(node)
Append a node to an element's child nodes.
### insertAdjacentHTML(where, html)
Parses the specified text as HTML and inserts the resulting nodes into the DOM tree at a specified position.
### setAttribute(key: string, value: string)
Set `value` to `key` attribute.
### setAttributes(attrs: Record<string, string>)
Set attributes of the element.
### removeAttribute(key: string)
Remove `key` attribute.
### getAttribute(key: string)
Get `key` attribute. `undefined` if not set.
### exchangeChild(oldNode: Node, newNode: Node)
Exchanges given child with new child.
### removeChild(node: Node)
Remove child node.
### toString()
Same as [outerHTML](#htmlelementouterhtml)
### set_content(content: string | Node | Node[])
Set content. **Notice**: Do not set content of the **root** node.
### remove()
Remove current element.
### replaceWith(...nodes: (string | Node)[])
Replace current element with other node(s).
### classList
#### classList.add
Add class name.
#### classList.replace(old: string, new: string)
Replace class name with another one.
#### classList.remove()
Remove class name.
#### classList.toggle(className: string):void
Toggle class. Remove it if it is already included, otherwise add.
#### classList.contains(className: string): boolean
Returns true if the classname is already in the classList.
#### classList.value
Get class names.
#### clone()
Clone a node.
#### getElementById(id: string): HTMLElement | null
Get element by it's ID.
## HTMLElement Properties
### text
Get unescaped text value of current node and its children. Like `innerText`.
(slow for the first time)
### rawText
Get escaped (as-is) text value of current node and its children. May have
`&` in it. (fast)
### tagName
Get or Set tag name of HTMLElement. Note that the returned value is an uppercase string.
### structuredText
Get structured Text.
### structure
Get DOM structure.
### childNodes
Get all child nodes. A child node can be a TextNode, a CommentNode and a HTMLElement.
### children
Get all child elements, so all child nodes of type HTMLELement.
### firstChild
Get first child node. `undefined` if the node has no children.
### lastChild
Get last child node. `undefined` if the node has no children.
### firstElementChild
Get the first child of type HTMLElement. `undefined` if none exists.
### lastElementChild
Get the first child of type HTMLElement. `undefined` if none exists.
### childElementCount
Get the number of children that are of type HTMLElement.
### innerHTML
Set or Get innerHTML.
### outerHTML
Get outerHTML.
### nextSibling
Returns a reference to the next child node of the current element's parent. `null` if not found.
### nextElementSibling
Returns a reference to the next child element of the current element's parent. `null` if not found.
### previousSibling
Returns a reference to the previous child node of the current element's parent. `null` if not found.
### previousElementSibling
Returns a reference to the previous child element of the current element's parent. `null` if not found.
### textContent
Get or Set textContent of current element, more efficient than [set_content](#htmlelementset_contentcontent-string--node--node).
### attributes
Get all attributes of current element. **Notice: do not try to change the returned value.**
### range
Corresponding source code start and end indexes (ie [ 0, 40 ])
## WASM / 浏览器 & Node.js 使用
本仓库同时支持:
- 作为普通 Rust 库 (native)
- 编译为 WebAssembly,在浏览器或 Node.js 中调用
### 构建前准备
1. 安装 wasm 目标
```bash
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
```
2. (可选)安装 wasm-pack
```bash
cargo install wasm-pack
```
### Feature 说明
| parallel | 启用 rayon 并行 | 启用 | wasm 线程需额外配置,建议 wasm 下关闭 |
| wasm | 启用 wasm-bindgen + panic hook | 关闭 | wasm 构建时启用 |
在 wasm 场景下为避免 rayon 线程问题,建议使用:`--no-default-features --features wasm`。
### 使用 wasm-pack 构建(推荐)
```bash
wasm-pack build --release --target bundler --no-default-features --features wasm
# 或 --target web / nodejs / deno 视使用环境而定
```
输出目录 `pkg/` 中包含:
- `node_html_parser_bg.wasm`
- 对应 JS 绑定与类型声明
### 浏览器示例
```html
<script type="module">
import init, { hello } from './pkg/node_html_parser.js';
await init();
console.log(hello('Browser'));
</script>
```
### Node.js 示例 (ESM)
```js
import init, { hello } from './pkg/node_html_parser.js';
await init();
console.log(hello('Node'));
```
### 直接使用 cargo 构建 (无 JS 包装层)
```bash
cargo build --release --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --no-default-features --features wasm
```
你需要自己加载 `.wasm` 并处理导出(`wasm-bindgen` 生成包装时不需要)。
### Panic 与调试
启用 `wasm` feature 后自动安装 `console_error_panic_hook`,可在浏览器控制台看到 Rust panic 堆栈。
### 并行策略
`total_len` 等内部函数在启用 `parallel` 时使用 rayon 并行;在 wasm 构建关闭 `parallel` 时会自动退化为串行。
### 未来计划(可选)
- 导出完整 HTML Parser API 到 wasm
- 提供更细粒度的 DOM 访问接口
- 带 wasm 线程支持(SharedArrayBuffer 环境)