What is the best way to parse html in google apps script

Question

var page = UrlFetchApp.fetch(contestURL);
var doc = XmlService.parse(page);

The above code gives a parse error when used, however if I replace the

Answer 1

For simple tasks such as grabbing one value from a webpage, you could use a regular expression. Regex is notoriously bad for parsing HTML as there's all sorts of weird cases it can get tripped up, but if you're confident about the HTML you're accessing this can sometimes be the simplest way.

Here's an example that fetches the contents of the page's ", "gi"); var result = regExp.exec(page.getContentText()); // [1] is the match group when using parenthesis in the pattern var value = result ? result[1] : 'No title found';