Top 13 css-selector Open-Source Projects

floki

0 1,995 8.7 Elixir

Floki is a simple HTML parser that enables search for nodes using CSS selectors.
xidel

18 651 5.6 Pascal

Command line tool to download and extract data from HTML/XML pages or JSON-APIs, using CSS, XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0, JSONiq or pattern matching. It can also create new or transformed XML/HTML/JSON documents.

Project mention: Move over jq I found something easier: fx | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-06

You could try Xidel[1]. It supports JSON, XML and HTML using XPath/XQuery 3.1
It has some extensions to the standard that are pretty nice (JSONiq, CSS selectors, html “template” matching), but you can limit it to just standard XPath/XQuery if you like.
I recommend getting the nightly v .99 build if you give it a try, the stable .98 version is pretty old and I’ve had no issues with .99
1. https://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html

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tq

1 234 0.0 Python

Perform a lookup by CSS selector on an HTML input
soupsieve

2 187 5.5 Python

A modern CSS selector implementation for BeautifulSoup
cascadia

1 134 4.7 Go

Go cascadia package command line CSS selector
Dom

1 112 5.6 PHP

Modern DOM API. (by PhpGt)
hq

1 106 1.9 C++

A HTML processor inspired by jq (by coderobe)
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
css-selector-tool

1 104 7.7 JavaScript

A low-code data extractor for websites with built in proxy and parsing capabilities. Great for testing and debugging css selectors

Project mention: Show HN: A tool to quickly extract data from websites | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-06

visdom

1 102 5.7 Rust

A library use jQuery like API for html parsing & node selecting & node mutation, suitable for web scraping and html confusion.
html2data

0 66 4.6 Go

Library and cli for extracting data from HTML via CSS selectors
stitcherd

2 43 2.1 Go

Dynamic content for mostly static sites.
modest_ex

0 32 1.8 C

Elixir library to do pipeable transformations on html strings (with CSS selectors)
css-selectors

0 2 1.5 Haskell

A library for parsing, manipulating, and rendering css selectors (not css files, just the selectors).

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

css-selector related posts

The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 May 2022
Soup Sieve – A modern CSS selector implementation for BeautifulSoup
1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 27 Dec 2021
Like JQ, but for HTML
21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2021

Index

What are some of the best open-source css-selector projects? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	floki	1,995
2	xidel	651
3	tq	234
4	soupsieve	187
5	cascadia	134
6	Dom	112
7	hq	106
8	css-selector-tool	104
9	visdom	102
10	html2data	66
11	stitcherd	43
12	modest_ex	32
13	css-selectors	2