A lightweight HTML parser written entirely in C++ — no external dependencies.
Designed for speed, clarity, and flexibility, this parser can tokenize and extract HTML elements, attributes, and text content for further processing.
- 🔍 Tokenization — Splits HTML into tags, attributes, and text nodes
- 🏷 Element parsing — Identifies start tags, end tags, and self-closing tags
- 📜 Attribute handling — Reads attributes and values, supports quoted/unquoted values
- 🪶 Lightweight — Zero third-party dependencies, pure standard C++
- 🚀 Fast — Minimal allocations, stream-based parsing
Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/philipszdavido/HTMLParser-C-.git
cd HTMLParser-C-#include "HtmlParser.hpp"
#include <iostream>
int main() {
std::string html = R"(
<html>
<head><title>Hello</title></head>
<body>
<h1 class="title">Welcome!</h1>
<p id="intro">This is a test.</p>
</body>
</html>
)";
HtmlParser parser(html);
auto tokens = parser.parse();
for (const auto& token : tokens) {
std::cout << token << "\n";
}
return 0;
}Token(name="html", start=true, end=false, attributes=[])
Token(name="head", start=true, end=false, attributes=[])
Token(name="title", start=true, end=false, attributes=[])
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