Gumbo.jl is Julia wrapper around Google's gumbo library for parsing HTML.
Getting started is very easy:
julia> using Gumbo
julia> parsehtml("<h1> Hello, world! </h1>")
HTML Document:
<!DOCTYPE >
HTMLElement{:HTML}:
<HTML>
<head></head>
<body>
<h1>
Hello, world!
</h1>
</body>
</HTML>Read on for further documentation.
On Unix systems with autotools you should be able to do:
Pkg.clone("Gumbo")
Pkg.build("Gumbo")
Please file an issue if the build script fails for you; it has not yet been extensively tested.
Windows is not yet supported, mostly due to the difficulty of building the gumbo C library on non-Unix platforms.
The workhorse is the parsehtml function, which takes a single
argument, a valid UTF8 String (meaning it could be a UTF8String or
an ASCIIString, since all valid ASCII is also valid UTF8), which is
interpreted as HTML data to be parsed, e.g.:
parsehtml("<h1> Hello, world! </h1>")The result of a call to parsehtml is an HTMLDocument, a type which
has two fields: doctype, which is the doctype of the parsed document
(this will be the empty string if no doctype is provided), and root,
which is a reference to the HTMLElement that is the root of the
document.
Note that gumbo is a very permissive HTML parser, designed to gracefully handle the insanity that passes for HTML out on the wild, wild web. It will return a valid HTML document for any input, doing all sorts of algorithmic gymnastics to twist what you give it into valid HTML.
If you want an HTML valdator, this is probably not your library. That
said, parsehtml does take an optional Bool keyword argument,
strict which, if true, causes an InvalidHTMLError to be thrown
if the call to the gumbo C library produces any errors.
This library defines a number of types for representing HTML.
HTMlDocument is what is returned from a call to parsehtml it has a
doctype field, which contains the doctype of the parsed document,
and a root field, which is a reference to the root of the document.
A document contains a tree of HTML Nodes, which are represented as
children of the HTMLNode abstract type. The first of these is
HTMLElement.
type HTMLElement{T} <: HTMLNode
children::Vector{HTMLNode}
parent::HTMLNode
attributes::Dict{String, String}
endHTMLElement is probably the most interesting and frequently used
type. An HTMLElement is parameterized by a symbol representing its
tag. So an HTMLElement{:a} is a different type from an
HTMLElement{:body}, etc. An empty HTMLElement of a given tag can be
constructed as follows:
julia> HTMLElement(:div)
HTMLElement{:div}:
<div></div>HTMLElements have a parent field, which refers to another
HTMLNode. parent will always be an HTMLElement, unless the
element has no parent (as is the case with the root of a document), in
which case it will be a NullNode, a special type of HTMLNode which
exists for just this purpose. Empty HTMLElements constructed as in
the example above will also have a NullNode for a parent.
HTMLElements also have children, which is a vector of
HTMLElement containing the children of this element, and
attributes, which is a Dict mapping attribute names to values.
HTMLElements implement getindex, setindex!, and push!;
indexing into or pushing onto an HTMLElement operates on its
children array.
There are a number of convenience methods for working with HTMLElements:
-
tag(elem)get the tag of this element as a symbol -
attrs(elem)return the attributes dict of this element -
children(elem)return the children array of this element -
getattr(elem, name)get the value of attributenameor raise a KeyError -
setattr!(elem, name, value)set the value of attributenametovalue
type HTMLText <: HTMLNode
parent::HTMLNode
text::String
end
Represents text appearing in an HTML document. For example:
julia> doc = parsehtml("<h1> Hello, world! </h1>")
HTML Document:
<!DOCTYPE >
HTMLElement{:HTML}:
<HTML>
<head></head>
<body>
<h1>
Hello, world!
</h1>
</body>
</HTML>
julia> doc.root[2][1][1]
HTML Text: Hello, world!This type is quite simple, just a reference to its parent and the
actual text it represents (this is also accessible by a text
function). You can construct HTMLText instances as follows:
julia> HTMLText("Example text")
HTML Text: Example text
Just as with HTMLElements, the parent of an instance so constructed
will be a NullNode.
There are three methods for iterating over HTML trees: postorder,
preorder, and breadthfirst. These return instances of iterator
types that can be iterated over to yield the children of the passed
element in the specified order. For example:
julia> doc = parsehtml("""
<html>
<body>
<div>
<p/> <a/> <p/>
</div>
<div>
<span/>
</div>
</body>
</html>
""");
julia> for elem in preorder(doc.root)
println(tag(elem))
end
HTML
head
body
div
p
a
p
a
a
div
span
julia> for elem in postorder(doc.root)
println(tag(elem))
end
head
a
p
a
p
div
span
div
a
body
HTML- support CDATA
- support Windows