"Provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work"
A simple usage example:
import 'package:beautifulsoup/beautifulsoup.dart';
main() {
String document = """
<html><head><title>The Dormouse's story</title></head>
<body>
<p class="title"><b>The Dormouse's story</b></p>
<p class="story">Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were
<a href="http://example.com/elsie" class="sister" id="link1">Elsie</a>,
<a href="http://example.com/lacie" class="sister" id="link2">Lacie</a> and
<a href="http://example.com/tillie" class="sister" id="link3">Tillie</a>;
and they lived at the bottom of a well.</p>
<p class="story">...</p>
""";
var soup = Beautifulsoup(document);
print(soup("title").outerHtml); //soup.title
print(soup("title").localName); //soup.title.name
print(soup("title").text); //soup.title.string
print(soup("title").parent.localName); //soup.title.parent.name
print(soup("p").outerHtml); //soup.title.parent.name
print(soup("p").attributes["class"]); //soup.p['class']
print(soup("a").outerHtml); //soup.a
print(soup.get_text()); //soup.get_text()
print(soup.find_all("a").map((e)=> (e.outerHtml)).toList());
}Modifying text via class name
String document = """
<p id="RipVanWinkle">
RipVanWinkle paragraph.
</p>
""";
var soup = Beautifulsoup(document);
soup.find(id:"#RipVanWinkle").text = "Wake up, sleepy head!";
print(soup.print());Modify text by tag
String document = """
<a href="http://example.com/">I linked to <i>example.com</i></a>
""";
var soup = Beautifulsoup(document);
soup("a").text ="New link text";
print(soup.print());Find all links in a html document
String document = """
<html>
<head>
<title>
The Dormouse's story
</title>
</head>
<body>
<p class="title">
<b>
The Dormouse's story
</b>
</p>
<p class="story">
Once upon a time there were three little sisters; and their names were
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/elsie" id="link1">
Elsie
</a>
,
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/lacie" id="link2">
Lacie
</a>
and
<a class="sister" href="http://example.com/tillie" id="link2">
Tillie
</a>
; and they lived at the bottom of a well.
</p>
<p class="story">
...
</p>
</body>
</html>
""";
var soup = Beautifulsoup(document);
var hyperlinks = soup.find_all("a").map((e)=> print(soup.attr(e,"href"))).toList();
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