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cheerio is a popular JavaScript library that allows you to interact with and manipulate HTML and XML documents in a similar way to how you would with jQuery in a browser. It is a fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.

One of the main benefits of using cheerio is that it allows you to use jQuery-like syntax to navigate and m anipulate the Document Object Model (DOM) of an HTML or XML document, making it easy to work with.

cheerio supports CSS selectors though not XPath.

html5-parser is a Python library for parsing HTML and XML documents.

A fast implementation of the HTML 5 parsing spec for Python. Parsing is done in C using a variant of the gumbo parser. The gumbo parse tree is then transformed into an lxml tree, also in C, yielding parse times that can be a thirtieth of the html5lib parse times. That is a speedup of 30x. This differs, for instance, from the gumbo python bindings, where the initial parsing is done in C but the transformation into the final tree is done in python.

It is built on top of the popular lxml library and provides a simple and intuitive API for working with the document's structure.

html5-parser uses the HTML5 parsing algorithm, which is more lenient and forgiving than the traditional XML-based parsing algorithm. This means that it can parse HTML documents with malformed or missing tags and still produce a usable parse tree.

To use html5-parser, you first need to install it via pip by running pip install html5-parser. Once it is installed, you can use the html5_parser.parse() function to parse an HTML document and create a parse tree. For example:

``` from html5_parser import parse

html_string = "Hello, World!" root = parse(html_string) print(root.tag) # html ` You can also use `html5_parser.parse() with file-like objects, bytes or file paths.

Once you have a parse tree, you can use the find() and findall() methods to search for elements in the document similar to BeautifulSoup.

html5-parser also supports searching using xpath, similar to lxml.

Example Use


```javascript const cheerio = require('cheerio'); const $ = cheerio.load('My title

Hello World!

'); // use css selectors console.log($('title').text()); // My title console.log($('.name').text()); // Hello World! // select multiple elements const $ = cheerio.load('
  • item 1
  • item 2
'); $('li').each(function(i, elem) { console.log($(this).text()); }); // modify elements const $ = cheerio.load('

Hello World!

'); $('h1').text('Hello, Cheerio!'); console.log($.html()); ```
```python from html5_parser import parse html_string = "Hello, World!" root = parse(html_string) print(root.tag) # html body = root.find("body") # or find all print(body.text) # "Hello, World!" for el in root.findall("p"): print(el.text) # "Hello ```

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