html5lib VS selectolax

Compare html5lib vs selectolax and see what are their differences.

html5lib

Standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments in Python (by html5lib)

selectolax

Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines (fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors). (by rushter)
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html5lib selectolax
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1,090 944
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4.1 7.7
about 1 month ago 18 days ago
Python Cython
MIT License 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.
  • 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.

selectolax

Posts with mentions or reviews of selectolax. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-09.

What are some alternatives?

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

lxml - The lxml XML toolkit for Python

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

xhtml2pdf - A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab

lexbor - Lexbor is development of an open source HTML Renderer library. https://lexbor.com

pyppeteer - Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer)

pyquery - A jquery-like library for python

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

xmltodict - Python module that makes working with XML feel like you are working with JSON