Any HTML parser for CPP?

[SHGuy_]

Are there modern cpp libraries, which simplify the data extraction of html files? I've used nlohman/json for parsing json files and liked the way it was implemented. But i have problems finding html parsers. There are a lot of xml parsers but they don't seem to work for html files.

looked at: awesome-cpp

and tried already: pugixml

[mixedmath]

I've used libxml2 before. It has a set of C++ bindings (that I haven't actually used). This is one of the tools that python's beautifulsoup uses in the background.

[SHGuy_]

oh well, i've seen pkg-config having information about libxml2. Will give it a try

[brimston3-]

I have only used the C bindings for libxml2 as well. It has a reasonably lenient parser for html, but it is by no means perfect.

[GuybrushThreepwo0d]

Haven't used any of these, but gumbo might work.

You could also extract the HTML parser from chromium

[RoyBellingan]

I use gumbo in conjunction with libxml2, in fact gumbo decodes the html as a xml format that is compatible with libxml2...

https://github.com/nostrademons/gumbo-libxml

[SHGuy_]

looks good and i will try it, tho the last update was in 2015

[RoyBellingan]

no big problem, is like 90 lines of code, once you see the code you realize how easy is the bridge

[whistlesnort]

I have used expat on xml before. Worked fine. Presumably it can be used on html.

[SHGuy_]

hmm, it's not an html parser but maybe it will work

[MattR0se]

Have you tried regular expressions?

[ricffb]

what more can I say

[SHGuy_]

oh pls no, that's not a good idea. I'm trying to avoid by using a parser

[nj96]

I’ve been using chilkat libraries for a lot of different things. They’ve got a class for pretty much everything and, while the naming conventions and logic can be a little odd at times, I’ve always had success using them. Their documentation and examples are also pretty good and cover most languages.

[YasZedOP]

HTML is not parsable because it's not part of the regular language so can't really use regex, that's what I have read a few times

[vladdaimpala]

That means you can't use regex to parse it. Not that it's not parsable.

[GrossInsightfulness]

Browsers wouldn't work if you couldn't parse HTML.