Web scraping in Objective C

Question

is there any Objective C library for parsing HTML, like python\'s BeautifulSoup? Thanks

Answer 1

The best way I have found is NSXMLParser + libtidy. However, there are many third party libraries are available now which makes parsing easier. (last answer was written in 2011).

• Google's Gumbo HTML5 parser is pretty good. It's written in pure C99 and you can use it with Objective C (use a wrapper like this one).
• If you want pure Objective C libraries then Ono or hpple are good. HTMLReader is also a good alternative.
• If Swift is your thing, you could use NDHpple which is a swift wrapper based on hpple. Or You could use Swift-HTML-Parser. (Bonus: Alamofire is as good as Python Requests and is a joy to use)