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Parsley is a simple language for data-extraction from XML-like documents (including HTML). Parsley is:

1. Blazing fast — Typical HTML parses are sub-50ms.
2. Easy to write and understand — Parsley uses your current knowledge of JSON, CSS, and XPath.
3. Powerful. Parsley can understand full CSS and XPath, including standard and user-defined functions.

Parselets are data extractors written in Parsley. Here is an example parselet:

{
 "title": "h1",
 "links(a)": [{
    "text": ".",
    "link": "@href"
  }]
}

See more examples in the Parsley Examples section.

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Parsley Functions

Parsley Examples

Language Bindings: Ruby, Python

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