How to parse HTML in C++? [closed]

Answer 1

Hand parsing gets messy, even for relatively trivial cases.

Have you considered a Lexer/Parser, such as Flex/Bison? I highly recommend Antlr - and get AntlrWorks.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so this will tell you why - http://www.antlr.org/works/screenshots/editor.jpg

Answer 2

It will mainly depend on what you want to do retrieve in your webpage. You can try boost::spirit to create your own parser. (Or a Yacc/Lex parser).

If your are looking for more simple information in the HTML page, getc may be good enough...

Answer 3

libxml2 has a HTML parser. libxml++ is a wrapper for libxml2, but I'm not sure if it exposes the HTMLparser functionality.