htmlcleaner ☆

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Description:
HTML parser written in Java

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: html xml parser java web-scraping

Install: brew install htmlcleaner

About:
Htmlcleaner is a Java-based HTML parser and cleaner designed to parse malformed HTML and convert it into well-formed XML. It provides a flexible API for traversing the DOM tree and offers powerful configuration options for tag balancing and attribute management. This tool is particularly useful for web scraping and preparing HTML for XSLT processing.

Key Features:

Parses malformed HTML into valid XML
Configurable tag balancing and cleaning rules
Java API for DOM traversal and manipulation
Outputs clean, indented HTML or XML

Use Cases:

Cleaning up messy HTML before XML/XSLT processing
Web scraping where source HTML is not well-formed
Sanitizing user-submitted HTML content

Alternatives:

Jsoup – Jsoup is more modern and implements the HTML5 spec, whereas Htmlcleaner is often used for strict XML conversion.
HTML Tidy – HTML Tidy is a C-based library with similar cleaning capabilities, but Htmlcleaner is native to the Java ecosystem.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 27, 2024 7:05pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	d5e3720f