Lua library/framework for HTML parsing/scripting/web scraping?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Anyone happen to know of a popular/good LUA library for HTML parsing/scripting/scraping?

EDIT: e.g. equivalent to a Nokogiri in Ruby world, or Beautifulsoup in Python.

#2

Have you searched Google… there are a few out there.

https://github.com/luaforge/html/tree/master/html

https://github.com/thenumbernine/htmlparser-lua

you may have to convert the reading of files to Corona’s but usually most of the code should be the same.

Larry

#3

sorry - I meant to really put the emphasis on screen scraping - so a library/framework for this along the lines/popularity of Nokogiri in Ruby world, or Beautifulsoup in Python world…

#4

I’m not familiar with Nokogiri but I am familiar with and have used Beautiful Soup. I would be surprised if you found a Lua equivalent. I suspect Corona/Lua is not well-suited for this in the client. You might be better off, if network connectivity is available, to have a Python-equipped backend do this work. (If you’re scraping pages, presumably you have a network connection.)

#5

Have you searched Google… there are a few out there.

https://github.com/luaforge/html/tree/master/html

https://github.com/thenumbernine/htmlparser-lua

you may have to convert the reading of files to Corona’s but usually most of the code should be the same.

Larry

#6

sorry - I meant to really put the emphasis on screen scraping - so a library/framework for this along the lines/popularity of Nokogiri in Ruby world, or Beautifulsoup in Python world…

#7

I’m not familiar with Nokogiri but I am familiar with and have used Beautiful Soup. I would be surprised if you found a Lua equivalent. I suspect Corona/Lua is not well-suited for this in the client. You might be better off, if network connectivity is available, to have a Python-equipped backend do this work. (If you’re scraping pages, presumably you have a network connection.)