jsoup
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Developer(s) | Jonathan Hedley |
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Stable release | 1.13.1
/ February 29, 2020[1] |
Repository | |
Written in | Java |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Platform | Java (JVM) |
Type | HTML parser |
License | MIT license |
Website | jsoup |
jsoup is an open-source Java library designed to parse, extract, and manipulate data stored in HTML documents.
History
jsoup was written in 2009 by Jonathan Hedley, a software development manager for Amazon Seattle. He has distributed it 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
References
- ^ "jsoup Java HTML Parser release 1.13.1". Retrieved 7 March 2020.
- ^ "Jsoup". MVNRepository / F. Rodriguez. 2015-03-08.