Ksoup is a Kotlin Multiplatform library for working with real-world HTML and XML. It's a port of the renowned Java library, jsoup, and offers an easy-to-use API for URL fetching, data parsing, extraction, and manipulation using DOM and CSS selectors.
Ksoup implements the WHATWG HTML5 specification, parsing HTML to the same DOM as modern browsers do, but with support for Android, JVM, and native platforms.
- Scrape and parse HTML from a URL, file, or string
- Find and extract data using DOM traversal or CSS selectors
- Manipulate HTML elements, attributes, and text
- Clean user-submitted content against a safe-list to prevent XSS attacks
- Output tidy HTML
Ksoup is adept at handling all varieties of HTML found in the wild.
Include the dependency in commonMain. Latest version
commonMain.dependencies {
implementation("com.fleeksoft.ksoup:ksoup:<version>")
// Optional: Include only if you need to use network request functions such as
// Ksoup.parseGetRequest, Ksoup.parseSubmitRequest, and Ksoup.parsePostRequest
implementation("com.fleeksoft.ksoup:ksoup-network:<version>")
}val html = "<html><head><title>One</title></head><body>Two</body></html>"
val doc: Document = Ksoup.parse(html = html)
println("title => ${doc.title()}") // One
println("bodyText => ${doc.body().text()}") // TwoThis snippet demonstrates how to use Ksoup.parse for parsing an HTML string and extracting the title and body text.
//Please note that the com.fleeksoft.ksoup:ksoup-network library is required for Ksoup.parseGetRequest.
val doc: Document = Ksoup.parseGetRequest(url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/") // suspend function
// or
val doc: Document = Ksoup.parseGetRequestBlocking(url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/")
println("title: ${doc.title()}")
val headlines: Elements = doc.select("#mp-itn b a")
headlines.forEach { headline: Element ->
val headlineTitle = headline.attr("title")
val headlineLink = headline.absUrl("href")
println("$headlineTitle => $headlineLink")
}In this example, Ksoup.parseGetRequest fetches and parses HTML content from Wikipedia, extracting and printing news headlines and their corresponding links.
For further documentation, please check here: Ksoup
Ksoup is an open source project, a Kotlin Multiplatform port of jsoup, distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. The source code of Ksoup is available on GitHub.
For questions, ideas, or contributions regarding Ksoup, please contact us via email or create new pull requests.
Report any issues on our GitHub page, ensuring to check for duplicates beforehand.
| Platform | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Android | Beta | |
| JVM | Beta | |
| iOS | Alpha | Does not support few charsets. |
| Linux | Experimental | Does not support gzip files and few charsets. |
| JS | Alpha | Does not support few charsets. |
| Native MacOS | Coming Soon | |
| Native Windows | Coming Soon |
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