Jsoup

jsoup is an open-source Java library designed to parse, extract, and manipulate data stored in HTML documents.

jsoup Java HTML Parser

Developer(s)	Jonathan Hedley
Stable release	1.20.1 / April 29, 2025; 10 days ago (2025-04-29)[1]
Repository	github.com/jhy/jsoup
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	Java (JVM)
Type	HTML parser
License	MIT license
Website	jsoup.org

History

jsoup was created in 2009 by Jonathan Hedley. It is distributed it under the MIT License, a permissive free software license similar to the Creative Commons attribution license.

Hedley's avowed intention in writing jsoup was "to deal with all varieties of HTML found in the wild; from pristine and validating, to invalid tag-soup."

Projects powered by jsoup

jsoup is used in a number of current projects,^[2] including Google's OpenRefine data-wrangling tool.

See also

• Comparison of HTML parsers
• Web scraping
• Data wrangling
• MIT License