pguillory/luajit-gumbo

FFI binding for gumbo-parser

luajit-gumbo

Lua FFI binding for gumbo-parser, an HTML5 parser written in C. It produces output in LOM format. An alternative is lua-gumbo.

Usage

local gumbo = require 'gumbo'
local dom = gumbo.parse '<span id="foo">bar</span>'

..is equivalent to..

local dom =
  { tag = 'html',
    attr = {},
    { tag = 'body',
      attr = {},
      { tag = 'span',
        attr = {
          id = 'foo',
          [1] = 'id'
        },
        'bar'
      }
    }
  }

Installation

Gumbo will be downloaded and compiled by the Makefile.

luarocks install https://raw.github.com/pguillory/luajit-gumbo/master/rockspec/luajit-gumbo-0.1-2.rockspec

You can also clone this repo and run make install manually.