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
Ksoup published in four variants. Pick the one that suits your needs and start building!
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This variant is built without any external IO or Network dependencies. Use this if you want to parse HTML from a string.
implementation("com.fleeksoft.ksoup:ksoup-lite:<version>") -
This variant built with kotlinx-io and Ktor 3
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>")
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This variant is built with korlibs-io
implementation("com.fleeksoft.ksoup:ksoup-korlibs:<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-korlibs:<version>")
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This variant built with kotlinx-io and Ktor 2
implementation("com.fleeksoft.ksoup:ksoup-ktor2:<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-ktor2:<version>")
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This variant built with okio and Ktor 2
implementation("com.fleeksoft.ksoup:ksoup-okio:<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-ktor2:<version>")
NOTE: Variants built with kotlinx do not support gzip files.
For API documentation you can check Jsoup. Most of the APIs work without any changes.
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")
}//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
val metadata: Metadata = Ksoup.parseMetaData(element = doc) // suspend function
// or
val metadata: Metadata = Ksoup.parseMetaData(html = HTML)
println("title: ${metadata.title}")
println("description: ${metadata.description}")
println("ogTitle: ${metadata.ogTitle}")
println("ogDescription: ${metadata.ogDescription}")
println("twitterTitle: ${metadata.twitterTitle}")
println("twitterDescription: ${metadata.twitterDescription}")
// Check com.fleeksoft.ksoup.model.MetaData for more fieldsIn this example, Ksoup.parseGetRequest fetches and parses HTML content from Wikipedia, extracting and printing news headlines and their corresponding links.
- Ksoup.parse
- Ksoup.parseFile
- Ksoup.clean
- Ksoup.isValid
- Suspend functions
- Ksoup.parseGetRequest
- Ksoup.parseSubmitRequest
- Ksoup.parsePostRequest
- Blocking functions
- Ksoup.parseGetRequestBlocking
- Ksoup.parseSubmitRequestBlocking
- Ksoup.parsePostRequestBlocking
For further documentation, please check here: Jsoup
Ksoup vs. Jsoup Performance: Parsing & Selecting 448KB HTML File test.tx
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 about usage and general inquiries, please refer to GitHub Discussions.
If you wish to contribute, please read the Contributing Guidelines.
To report any issues, visit our GitHub issues, Please ensure to check for duplicates before submitting a new issue.
| Platform | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Android | Stable | |
| JVM | Stable | |
| iOS | Stable | |
| JS | Alpha | |
| WasmJs | Alpha | not supported with ktor2 |
| Native MacOS | Alpha | |
| Linux | Experimental | |
| Native Windows | Experimental |
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