html5parser

html5parser is a super fast and tiny HTML5 parser.

Highlights

Fast: maybe the fastest one you can find on GitHub.
Tiny: the fully packaged bundle size is less than 5kb.
Cross platform: works in the modern browsers and Node.js.
HTML5 only: any thing not in the specification will be ignored.
Accurate: every token could be located in source file.

Installation
Quick start
API Reference
- Core
- tokenize()
- parse()
- Utilities
- walk()
- safeHtml()
  - safeHtmlDefaultOptions
Warnings
Benchmark

Installation

Package manager

npm i -S html5parser

# or var yarn
yarn add html5parser

CDN

<script src="https://unpkg.com/html5parser@latest/dist/html5parser.umd.js"></script>

Quick start

import { parse, walk, SyntaxKind } from 'html5parser';

const ast = parse('<!DOCTYPE html><head><title>Hello html5parser!</title></head></html>');

walk(ast, {
  enter: (node) => {
    if (node.type === SyntaxKind.Tag && node.name === 'title' && Array.isArray(node.body)) {
      const text = node.body[0];
      if (text.type !== SyntaxKind.Text) {
        return;
      }
      const div = document.createElement('div');
      div.innerHTML = `The title of the input is <strong>${text.value}</strong>`;
      document.body.appendChild(div);
    }
  },
});

API Reference

tokenize(input)

Low level API to parse string to tokens:

function tokenize(input: string): IToken[];

IToken

interface IToken {
  start: number;
  end: number;
  value: string;
  type: TokenKind;
}

TokenKind

const enum TokenKind {
  Literal,
  OpenTag, // trim leading '<'
  OpenTagEnd, // trim tailing '>', only could be '/' or ''
  CloseTag, // trim leading '</' and tailing '>'
  Whitespace, // the whitespace between attributes
  AttrValueEq,
  AttrValueNq,
  AttrValueSq,
  AttrValueDq,
}

parse(input)

Core API to parse string to AST:

function parse(input: string, options?: ParseOptions): INode[];

ParseOptions

interface ParseOptions {
  // create tag's attributes map
  // if true, will set ITag.attributeMap property
  // as a `Record<string, IAttribute>`
  setAttributeMap: boolean;
}

INode
```
export type INode = IText | ITag;
```

ITag

export interface ITag extends IBaseNode {
  type: SyntaxKind.Tag;
  // original open tag, <Div id="id">
  open: IText;
  // lower case tag name, div
  name: string;
  // original case tag name, Div
  rawName: string;
  attributes: IAttribute[];
  // the attribute map, if `options.setAttributeMap` is `true`
  // this will be a Record, key is the attribute name literal,
  // value is the attribute self.
  attributeMap: Record<string, IAttribute> | undefined;
  body:
    | Array<ITag | IText> // with close tag
    | undefined // self closed
    | null; // EOF before open tag end
  // original close tag, </DIV >
  close:
    | IText // with close tag
    | undefined // self closed
    | null; // EOF before end or without close tag
}

IAttribute

export interface IAttribute extends IBaseNode {
  name: IText;
  value: IAttributeValue | undefined;
}

IAttributeValue

export interface IAttributeValue extends IBaseNode {
  value: string;
  quote: "'" | '"' | undefined;
}

IText

export interface IText extends IBaseNode {
  type: SyntaxKind.Text;
  value: string;
}

IBaseNode

export interface IBaseNode {
  start: number;
  end: number;
}

SyntaxKind

export enum SyntaxKind {
  Text = 'Text',
  Tag = 'Tag',
}

walk(ast, options)

Visit all the nodes of the AST with specified callbacks:

function walk(ast: INode[], options: WalkOptions): void;

IWalkOptions

export interface IWalkOptions {
  enter?(node: INode, parent: INode | void, index: number): void;
  leave?(node: INode, parent: INode | void, index: number): void;
}

safeHtml(input)

Parse input to AST and keep the tags and attributes by whitelists, and then print it to a string.

function safeHtml(input: string, options?: Partial<SafeHtmlOptions>): string;

SafeHtmlOptions

export interface SafeHtmlOptions {
  allowedTags: string[];
  allowedAttrs: string[];
  tagAllowedAttrs: Record<string, string[]>;
  allowedUrl: RegExp;
}

safeHtmlDefaultOptions

The default options of safeHtml, you can modify it, its effect is global.

const safeHtmlDefaultOptions: SafeHtmlOptions;

Warnings

This is use for HTML5, that means:

All tags like <? ... ?>, <! ... > (except for <!doctype ...>, case insensitive) is treated as Comment, that means CDATASection is treated as comment.
Special tag names:

"!doctype" (case insensitive), the doctype declaration
"!": short comment
"!--": normal comment
""(empty string): short comment, for <? ... >, the leading ? is treated as comment content

Benchmark

Thanks for htmlparser-benchmark, I created a pull request at pulls/7, and its result on my MacBook Pro is:

$ npm test

> [email protected] test ~/htmlparser-benchmark
> node execute.js

gumbo-parser failed (exit code 1)
high5 failed (exit code 1)

html-parser        : 28.6524 ms/file ± 21.4282

html5              : 130.423 ms/file ± 161.478

html5parser        : 2.37975 ms/file ± 3.30717

htmlparser         : 16.6576 ms/file ± 109.840

htmlparser2-dom    : 3.45602 ms/file ± 5.05830

htmlparser2        : 2.61135 ms/file ± 4.33535
hubbub failed (exit code 1)
libxmljs failed (exit code 1)

neutron-html5parser: 2.89331 ms/file ± 2.94316
parse5 failed (exit code 1)

sax                : 10.2110 ms/file ± 13.5204

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2020 acrazing

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