Nokogiri (software)

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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;39 days ago (2023-11-17) [1]
Preview release
1.16.0.rc1 / December 13, 2023;13 days ago (2023-12-13) [1]
Repository
Operating system Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows, macOS
Platform Cross-platform
Available in Ruby, Java
Type Parser
License MIT License [2]
Website www.nokogiri.org   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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]

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Overview

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

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

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References

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  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.
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  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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