jsoup

# jsoup: Java HTML Parser

**jsoup** is a Java library that makes it easy to work with real-world HTML and XML. It offers an easy-to-use API for URL fetching, data parsing, extraction, and manipulation using DOM API methods, CSS, and xpath selectors.

**jsoup** implements the [WHATWG HTML5](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html) specification, and parses HTML to the same DOM as modern browsers.

- [Scrape and parse HTML](https://jsoup.org/cookbook/input/parse-document-from-string) from a URL, file, or string.
- [Find and extract data](https://jsoup.org/cookbook/extracting-data/selector-syntax) using DOM traversal or CSS selectors.
- [Manipulate HTML elements](https://jsoup.org/cookbook/modifying-data/set-html), attributes, and text.
- [Clean user-submitted content](https://jsoup.org/cookbook/cleaning-html/safelist-sanitizer) against a safelist to prevent XSS attacks.
- [Output tidy HTML](https://jsoup.org/apidocs/org/jsoup/nodes/Element.html#html()).

jsoup is designed to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild; from pristine and validating, to invalid tag-soup; jsoup will create a sensible parse tree.

See [**jsoup.org**](https://jsoup.org/) for downloads and the full [API documentation](https://jsoup.org/apidocs/).

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## Example
Fetch the [Wikipedia homepage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page), parse it to a [DOM](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model/Introduction), and select the headlines from the *In the news* section into a list of [Elements](https://jsoup.org/apidocs/org/jsoup/select/Elements.html) ([online sample](https://try.jsoup.org/~LGB7rk_atM2roavV0d-czMt3J_g), [full source](https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jsoup/examples/Wikipedia.java)):

```java
Document doc = Jsoup.connect("https://en.wikipedia.org/").get();
log(doc.title());
Elements newsHeadlines = doc.select("#mp-itn b a");
for (Element headline : newsHeadlines) {
    log("%s\n\t%s",
        headline.attr("title"), headline.absUrl("href"));
}
```

## Open Source
jsoup is an open source project distributed under the liberal [MIT license](https://jsoup.org/license). The source code is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/jhy/jsoup).

## Getting Started
1. [**Download**](https://jsoup.org/download) the [latest](https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/releases/tag/jsoup-1.23.1) jsoup jar (or add it to your Maven/Gradle build)
2. Read the [cookbook introduction](https://jsoup.org/cookbook/introduction/parsing-a-document).
3. Enjoy!

Maven:

```xml
<dependency>
  <!-- jsoup HTML parser library @ https://jsoup.org/ -->
  <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
  <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
  <version>1.23.2</version>
</dependency>
```

Gradle:

```groovy
// jsoup HTML parser library @ https://jsoup.org/
implementation 'org.jsoup:jsoup:1.23.1'
```

### Android Support
When used in