jsoup: Java HTML Parser

jsoup is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for fetching URLs and extracting and manipulating data, using the best of HTML5 DOM methods and CSS selectors.

jsoup implements the WHATWG HTML5 specification, and parses HTML to the same DOM as modern browsers do.

scrape and parse HTML from a URL, file, or string

find and extract data, using DOM traversal or CSS selectors

manipulate the HTML elements, attributes, and text

clean user-submitted content against a safe white-list, to prevent XSS attacks

attacks output tidy HTML

jsoup is designed to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild; from pristine and validating, to invalid tag-soup; jsoup will create a sensible parse tree.

Example

Fetch the Wikipedia homepage, parse it to a DOM, and select the headlines from the In the news section into a list of Elements (online sample, full source):

Document doc = Jsoup.connect("https://en.wikipedia.org/").get(); log(doc.title()); Elements newsHeadlines = doc.select("#mp-itn b a"); for (Element headline : newsHeadlines) { log("%s

\t%s", headline.attr("title"), headline.absUrl("href")); }

Open source

jsoup is an open source project distributed under the liberal MIT license. The source code is available at GitHub.

Getting started

Download the jsoup jar (version 1.13.1) Read the cookbook introduction Enjoy!

Development and support

If you have any questions on how to use jsoup, or have ideas for future development, please get in touch via the mailing list.

If you find any issues, please file a bug after checking for duplicates.

The colophon talks about the history of and tools used to build jsoup.

Status

jsoup is in general release.