node-htmlparser

Forgiving HTML/XML/RSS Parser in JS for *both* Node and Browsers

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Forgiving HTML/XML/RSS Parser in JS for *both* Node and Browsers

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Mar 5	2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC	2012-03-12 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
Mar 12	2012-03-12 00:00:00 UTC	2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 19	2012-03-19 00:00:00 UTC	2012-03-26 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 26	2012-03-26 00:00:00 UTC	2012-04-02 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 2	2012-04-02 00:00:00 UTC	2012-04-09 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 9	2012-04-09 00:00:00 UTC	2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 16	2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC	2012-04-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 23	2012-04-23 00:00:00 UTC	2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 30	2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC	2012-05-07 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 7	2012-05-07 00:00:00 UTC	2012-05-14 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 14	2012-05-14 00:00:00 UTC	2012-05-21 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 21	2012-05-21 00:00:00 UTC	2012-05-28 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 28	2012-05-28 00:00:00 UTC	2012-06-04 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 4	2012-06-04 00:00:00 UTC	2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 11	2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC	2012-06-18 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 18	2012-06-18 00:00:00 UTC	2012-06-25 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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rrjamie·Jun 19, 2012

(Author here) This is an offshoot of a codebase that is used as an internal (and soon to be external) development tool. It's a hit around the office and makes light fun of our real product. It's build on Node.js, and in particular uses a nice SAX parser (https://github.com/tautologistics/node-htmlparser/) to handle the page transformation. Also, http://www.catapi.com provides the cat images.

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tluyben2·Mar 8, 2012

I added this for that reason; https://github.com/tautologistics/node-htmlparser/issues/2 The issue is, as the above thread shows, that the creator of node-htmlparser does not want to support illegal HTML. Unfortunately that is not realistic.

In Scraping Web Pages With jQuery, Node.js and Jsdom

lancefisher·Mar 8, 2012

The problem I've had with using jsdom in scraping web pages is that it is not very forgiving about bad HTML. There are so many pages in the wild that have malformed HTML, and jsdom just pukes on it. I started using Apricot [1] which uses HtmlParser [2] which has been better. I'd like to hear what others are using to scrape bad webpages. [1] https://github.com/silentrob/Apricot [2] https://github.com/tautologistics/node-htmlparser

In Scraping Web Pages With jQuery, Node.js and Jsdom