Overview
A lightweight Flutter/Dart package for extracting HTML content by scraping tags and their attributes, converting them into structured Dart lists and maps. Ideal for parsing static web pages or retrieving data from HTML sources without requiring full DOM manipulation. It supports multiple platforms including mobile, web, and desktop, making it versatile for cross-platform applications that need to extract structured data from HTML responses.
Use cases
- Extracting data from static web pages
- Parsing HTML tables and lists
- Scraping metadata from web content
- Populating local data from HTML sources
- Building simple web crawlers
Key features
- Simple API for HTML tag extraction
- Supports attribute and text content retrieval
- Converts scraped data into Dart Lists and Maps
- Cross-platform compatibility
- Lightweight and easy to integrate
Suitable for
- Developers building data-fetching apps
- Projects needing HTML parsing without heavy frameworks
- Prototyping web scraping features
- Apps requiring minimal server-side processing
Considerations
- Not suitable for dynamic JavaScript-rendered content
- Requires valid HTML input
- May not handle malformed HTML gracefully
- Limited to static page scraping
- Depends on external HTML source reliability