Himalaya

Parse HTML into JSON

Try online 🚀 | Read the specification 📖

Usage

Node

npm install himalaya

import fs from 'fs'
import { parse } from 'himalaya'
const html = fs.readFileSync('/webpage.html', { encoding: 'utf8' })
const json = parse(html)
console.log('👉', json)

Browser

Download himalaya.js and put it in a <script> tag. Himalaya will be accessible from window.himalaya.

const html = '

Hello world

'
const json = window.himalaya.parse(html)
console.log('👉', json)

Himalaya bundles well with Browersify and Webpack.

Example Input/Output

Himalaya parsed me...

;[
  {
    type: 'element',
    tagName: 'div',
    attributes: [
      {
        key: 'class',
        value: 'post post-featured',
      },
    ],
    children: [
      {
        type: 'element',
        tagName: 'p',
        attributes: [],
        children: [
          {
            type: 'text',
            content: 'Himalaya parsed me...',
          },
        ],
      },
      {
        type: 'comment',
        content: ' ...and I liked it. ',
      },
    ],
  },
]

Note: In this example, text nodes consisting of whitespace are not shown for readability.

Features

Synchronous

Himalaya transforms HTML into JSON, that's it. Himalaya is synchronous and does not require any complicated callbacks.

Handles Weirdness

Himalaya handles a lot of HTML's fringe cases, like:

• Closes unclosed tags `

...

- Ignores extra closing tags...- Properly handles void tags likeand- Properly handles self-closing tags like- Handles<!doctype>and<-- comments -->- Does not parse the contents of