Re: Good solution to parse HTML?

[Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@...>]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Aapo Talvensaari
<aapo.talvensaari@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 November 2015 at 15:55, Nereus <codecomplete@free.fr> wrote:
>> (...)
>> Is there a good tool I could use in Lua to parse HTML?
>
> I would recommend using HTML parser, such as this:
> https://github.com/craigbarnes/lua-gumbo


By the way, anyone here knows how to _use_ lua-gumbo?
I just tried again my scripts for downloading, compiling and
installing gumbo-parser and lua-gumbo, which are:

  rm -Rfv ~/usrc/gumbo-parser/
  cd      ~/usrc/
  git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/gumbo-parser

  cd ~/usrc/gumbo-parser/
  sh ./autogen.sh    2>&1 | tee oa
  ./configure        2>&1 | tee oc
  make               2>&1 | tee om
  sudo make install  2>&1 | tee omi

  rm -Rfv ~/usrc/lua-gumbo/
  cd      ~/usrc/
  git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/craigbarnes/lua-gumbo
  cd      ~/usrc/lua-gumbo/
  make              2>&1 | tee om
  make check        2>&1 | tee omc
  sudo make install 2>&1 | tee omi

and now the "make check" in lua-gumbo passes only 2 of the tests, and
fails the other 19 ones... anyway, I've never been able to use
lua-gumbo for even the simplest things, like extracting the title of
an HTML page...

  Cheers =),
    Eduardo Ochs
    http://angg.twu.net/