Nokogiri is an open source software library to parse HTML and XML in Ruby.[3][4][5][6] It depends on libxml2 and libxslt to provide its functionality.[7]

Nokogiri, an XML and HTML Parser
Original author(s)Aaron Patterson, Mike Dalessio
Developer(s)Aaron Patterson, Mike Dalessio, Yoko Harada, Timothy Elliott, John Shahid, Akinori MUSHA
Initial releaseOctober 30, 2008 (2008-10-30)
Stable release
1.15.5 / November 17, 2023; 4 months ago (2023-11-17)[1]
Preview release
1.16.0.rc1 / December 13, 2023; 3 months ago (2023-12-13)[1]
Repository
Operating systemLinux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows, macOS
PlatformCross-platform
Available inRuby, Java
TypeParser
LicenseMIT License[2]
Websitewww.nokogiri.org Edit this on Wikidata

Overview edit

It markets itself as providing a sensible, easy-to-understand API for reading, writing, modifying, and querying documents. It is available for ruby as well as java through Jruby. It provides fast and standards-compliant parser by relying on native parsers like libxml2 (CRuby) and xerces (JRuby).

It is one of the most downloaded Ruby gems, having been downloaded over 700 million times from the rubygems.org repository.[8]

Features edit

  • DOM Parser for XML, HTML4, and HTML5
  • SAX Parser for XML and HTML4
  • Push Parser for XML and HTML4
  • Document search via XPath 1.0
  • Document search via CSS3 selectors
  • XSD Schema validation
  • XSLT transformation
  • XML and HTML Builder

Enterprise support is available through tidelift,[9] a paid subscription model, offering commercial support for open source applications.

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Releases - sparklemotion/nokogiri". Retrieved 3 February 2022 – via GitHub.
  2. ^ "LICENSE". Github. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
  3. ^ Peter Cooper (20 July 2009). Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional. Apress. pp. 528–529. ISBN 978-1-4302-2363-4. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  4. ^ Chad Pytel; Tammer Saleh (9 November 2010). Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring. Addison-Wesley. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-321-60481-1. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  5. ^ Mark Watson (2009). Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information, Gathering and Processing. Springer. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-4302-2351-1. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  6. ^ Sparklemotion, Team. "Tutorials - Nokogiri 鋸". www.nokogiri.org. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  7. ^ "Nokogiri (README.md)". Retrieved 22 November 2018 – via GitHub.
  8. ^ "nokogiri". RubyGems repository. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  9. ^ "nokogiri rubygems via the Tidelift Subscription". tidelift. Retrieved 3 February 2022.

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