Html-Parser Libraries Used in Web Scraping

javascript

cheerio
30,265 1.2.0 (2026-02-21 19:30:40 ago) Oct 08 2011
jsdom new
21,552 29.0.2 (2026-04-07 03:38:38 ago) Nov 21 2011
htmlparser2
4,789 12.0.0 (2026-03-20 23:08:40 ago) Aug 28 2011
sax-js
1,153 1.6.0 (2026-03-17 01:32:31 ago) Feb 09 2011
parse5
3,886 8.0.0 (2026-02-21 19:30:52 ago) Jul 03 2013

python

chopper
23 0.6.0 (2023-04-26 10:16:25 ago) Jul 24 2014
gazpacho
768 1.1 (2020-10-09 12:50:18 ago) Dec 28 2012
html5-parser
700 0.4.12 (2023-11-19 15:09:54 ago) Jun 03 2007
chompjs
218 1.4.0 (2025-08-04 21:07:54 ago) Jul 30 2007
scrapling new
36,206 0.4.5 (2026-04-07 04:22:27 ago) Aug 01 2024
untangle
632 1.2.1 (2022-07-02 14:09:28 ago) Jun 09 2011
requests-html
13,863 0.10.0 (2019-02-17 20:14:17 ago) Feb 25 2018
pyquery
2,381 2.0.1 (2024-08-30 08:12:22 ago) Dec 05 2008
selectolax
1,607 0.4.7 (2026-03-06 09:23:35 ago) Mar 01 2018
parsel
1,324 1.11.0 (2026-01-29 07:19:22 ago) Jul 26 2019
feedparser
2,351 6.0.12 (2025-09-10 13:33:58 ago) Jun 15 2007
cssselect
309 1.4.0 (2026-01-29 07:00:24 ago) Apr 14 2012
html5lib
1,220 1.1 (2020-06-22 23:32:36 ago) Jul 30 2007
xmltodict
5,734 1.0.4 (2026-02-22 02:21:21 ago) Jul 30 2007
beautifulsoup
- 4.14.3 (2025-11-30 15:08:24 ago) Jul 26 2019
lxml
3,010 6.0.3 (2026-04-09 14:33:38 ago) Dec 13 2022

r

ralger
165 2.3.0 (2021-03-18 00:10:00 ago) Dec 22 2019
rvest
1,517 1.0.5 (2024-02-12 21:10:00 ago) Nov 22 2014
xml2
223 1.5.2 (2025-12-01 15:40:00 ago) Apr 20 2015

go

goquery
14,926 v1.12.0 (2026-03-15 16:28:52 ago) Aug 29 2016
cascadia
754 Start (2018-02-20 18:47:44 ago) Feb 20 2018
htmlquery
781 v1.3.6 (2026-03-06 04:46:15 ago) Feb 07 2019
xpath
739 v1.3.6 (2026-02-23 07:10:29 ago) Jun 08 2019
soup
2,227 v1.2.5 (2022-01-16 14:36:54 ago) Apr 29 2017

php

simple-html-dom new
- 2.0-RC2 (2019-11-09 15:42:50 ago) Nov 09 2019
embed
2,103 v4.4.15 (2025-01-02 16:53:09 ago) Oct 26 2013
domcrawler
4,038 v8.0.8 (2026-03-30 15:14:47 ago) Sep 26 2011
html5-php
1,772 2.10.0 (2025-07-25 09:04:22 ago) Jun 01 2013

ruby

nokogiri
6,248 1.19.2 (2026-03-19 21:12:43 ago) Jul 25 2009
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