# jsoup **Repository Path**: trusted-list/jsoup ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: jsoup - **Description**: jsoup: the Java HTML parser, built for HTML editing, cleaning, scraping, and XSS safety. - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: MIT - **Default Branch**: master - **Homepage**: https://jsoup.org - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2026-03-11 - **Last Updated**: 2026-09-09 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README # 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/). [![Build Status](https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/workflows/Build/badge.svg)](https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/actions?query=workflow%3ABuild) ## 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 org.jsoup jsoup 1.23.2 ``` Gradle: ```groovy // jsoup HTML parser library @ https://jsoup.org/ implementation 'org.jsoup:jsoup:1.23.1' ``` ### Android Support When used in Android projects, [core library desugaring](https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support#library-desugaring) with the [NIO specification](https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java11-nio-support-table) should be enabled to support Java 8+ features. ## Development and Support If you have any questions on how to use jsoup or have ideas for future development, please get in touch via [jsoup Discussions](https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/discussions). If you find any issues, please file a [bug](https://jsoup.org/bugs) after checking for duplicates. The [colophon](https://jsoup.org/colophon) talks about the history of and tools used to build jsoup. ## Status jsoup is in general, stable release. ## Author jsoup was created and is maintained by [Jonathan Hedley](//jhedley.com), its primary author. jsoup is an open-source project, and many contributors have helped improve it over the years. You can see their contributions and join the development on [GitHub](https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/graphs/contributors). ## Citing jsoup If you use jsoup in research or technical documentation, you can cite it as: > **Jonathan Hedley & jsoup contributors. jsoup: Java HTML Parser (2009–present).** Available at: https://jsoup.org ```plaintext @misc{jsoup, author = {Jonathan Hedley and jsoup contributors}, title = {jsoup: Java HTML Parser}, year = {2026}, url = {https://jsoup.org} } ```