Developer(s) Jonathan Hedley Operating system Type HTML parser | Written in Java Platform Java (JVM) | |
Stable release 1.10.2 Stable / 2017-01-02 | ||
jsoup is an open-source Java library of methods designed to extract and manipulate data stored in HTML documents.
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History
jsoup was written in 2009 by Jonathan Hedley, a software development manager for Amazon Seattle. He has distributed it under the MIT License, a permissive free software license similar to the Creative Commons attribution license.
Hedley's avowed intention in writing jsoup was "to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild; from pristine and validating, to invalid tag-soup."
Projects powered by jsoup
jsoup is used in a number of current projects, including Google's OpenRefine data-wrangling tool.
References
Jsoup Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA