jsoup is an open-source Java library designed to parse, extract, and manipulate data stored in HTML documents.

History

jsoup was created in 2009 by Jonathan Hedley. It is distributed under the MIT License, a permissive free software license similar to the Creative Commons attribution license.

Hedley's avowed intention in writing jsoup was "to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild; from pristine and validating, to invalid tag-soup."

Projects powered by jsoup

jsoup is used in a number of current projects,^[2] including Google's OpenRefine data-wrangling tool.

See also

• Comparison of HTML parsers
• Web scraping
• Data wrangling
• MIT License

References

External links

• Official website