Parse html string to json using htmlparser2

Question

I'm trying to use htmlparser2 (https://www.npmjs.com/package/htmlparser2) to parse a html raw string into json.

But its usage only logs out the tag/text, what I want is the json like its livedemo (http://demos.forbeslindesay.co.uk/htmlparser2/), so that I can filter the elements I want.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

I tried to get returns from paser.write(html), but it returns nothing, and I also tried to return data from ondataend, still no luck. — Bill Chung
– Bill Chung, Commented Aug 1, 2015 at 8:40
Showing the code of what you tried is better than describing it and more helpful to anyone trying to help. — h7r
– h7r, Commented Aug 8, 2015 at 15:06

Bill Chung · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-01 09:26:20Z

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took a look of the source codes, it seems there is a helper method parseDOM that can do the trick:

var htmlparser = require("htmlparser2");
elements = htmlparser.parseDOM(htmlString);

so the elements will be the array of objects like the livedemo.

hope this will help anyone encounters the same problem.

answered Aug 1, 2015 at 9:26

Bill Chung

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