html5lib VS cssutils

Compare html5lib vs cssutils and see what are their differences.

html5lib

Standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments in Python (by html5lib)
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html5lib cssutils
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1,093 -
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4.1 -
about 2 months ago almost 8 years ago
Python
MIT License -
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html5lib

Posts with mentions or reviews of html5lib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.
  • Bleach 6.0.0 Release and Deprecation
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2023
    Yes. This is really interesting.

    Sounds like html5lib has been asking for funding, but doesn't look like there's much progress. https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/issues/361

  • Pydantic Factories
    2 projects | /r/Python | 25 Nov 2021
    Neither did html5lib.
  • Why are circular dependencies even a thing?
    3 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 25 Sep 2021
    Easier example...sphinx is a document generator for python programs (creating docs for the API of programs from source-code comments for example). Spinx depends on html5lib which itself again depends on six...want to make a guess what six uses to generate its API docs? ;) So if you want the api docs of six you will have to first install it without to be able to get a working sphinx install then redo the six on including the building of the API docs.

cssutils

Posts with mentions or reviews of cssutils. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing html5lib and cssutils you can also consider the following projects:

lxml - The lxml XML toolkit for Python

xhtml2pdf - A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab

bleach - Bleach is an allowed-list-based HTML sanitizing library that escapes or strips markup and attributes

selectolax - Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines (fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors).

xmldataset - xmldataset: xml parsing made easy 🗃️

pyquery - A jquery-like library for python

gazpacho - 🥫 The simple, fast, and modern web scraping library