Jsoup like html parser for C++ [closed]

Question

I have been writing some codes to get some data from some pages in Java and Jsoup was on of the best libraries to work with. But, Unfortunately I have to port the whole code to C/C++. But I a cannot find any decent html parser to use on c++. Is there any Jsoup like library for C++ or How can similar results be achieved?

[Currently I am using Curl to get the source of the pages and roaming the internet to find a html parser]

Answer 1

Unfortunately, i guess there's no parser like Jsoup for C++ ...

Beside the libraries which are already mentioned here, there's a good overview about C++ (some C too) parser here: Free C or C++ XML Parser Libraries

For parsing i used TinyXML-2 for (Html-) DOM parsing; it's a very small (only 2 files) library that runs on most OS (even non-desktop).

LibXml

• push and pull parser (DOM, SAX)
• Validation
• XPath and XPointer support
• Cross-Plattform / good documentation

Apache Xerxces

• push and pull parser (DOM, SAX)
• Validation
• No XPath support (but a package for this?)
• Cross-Plattform / good documentation

If you are on C++ CLI, check out NSoup - a Jsoup port for .NET.

Some more:

• htmlcxx - html and css APIs for C++
• MSHTML (?)
• pugixml (DOM / XPath and Unicode support)
• LibCSS (CSS Parser) / LibDOM (DOM) (however, both in C)
• hcxselect (CSS selector engine for C++)

Maybe you can combine a DOM Model / Parser and a CSS selector together?

Answer 2

If you are familiar with Qt Framework the most convenient way is using QWebElement (Reference here).

Otherwise, (as another post suggests) using Tidy to convert HTML to a valid XML and then using an XML parser such as libxml++ is a good option. You can find a sample code showing these two steps here.