What is JSoup?
It is a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides a very convenient API for fetching URLs and extracting and manipulating data, using the best of HTML5 DOM methods and CSS selectors.
JSoup is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Scrape and parse HTML from a URL, file, or stringFind and extract data, using DOM traversal or CSS selectorsFanipulate the HTML elements, attributes, and textClean user-submitted content against a safe-list, to prevent XSS attacksOutput tidy HTML
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JSoup Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to JSoup?
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Apache FreeMarker
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