fast-xml-parser
High-performance XML parser and builder without native dependencies.
Scraping, browsers and parsing npm MIT
Used in agent projects
58
0.5% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in scraping, browsers and parsing
#6 of 16
by use in those projects
Downloads
83.3M
npm, last 7 days, fast-xml-parser
GitHub stars
3,139
last push Oct 1, 2026
How fast-xml-parser is used
fast-xml-parser is a dependency in 58 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.5%), #6 of 16 in scraping, browsers and parsing. The most used alternative there is Beautiful Soup. Projects that use it most often also use jsdom (58.6%), npm-run-all2 (39.7%), Matplotlib (39.7%).
Often used with fast-xml-parser
| jsdom | 58.6% of fast-xml-parser projects · 10.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| npm-run-all2 | 39.7% of fast-xml-parser projects · 88.3× more than average |
| Matplotlib | 39.7% of fast-xml-parser projects · 26.0× more than average |
| Lefthook | 37.9% of fast-xml-parser projects · 37.6× more than average |
| markdown-link-check | 37.9% of fast-xml-parser projects · 192.6× more than average |
| markdownlint-cli2 | 37.9% of fast-xml-parser projects · 66.0× more than average |
| Checkov | 37.9% of fast-xml-parser projects · 185.2× more than average |
| Diagrams | 37.9% of fast-xml-parser projects · 178.4× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 1.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.6% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list fast-xml-parser as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install fast-xml-parser |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (26), TypeScript / JavaScript (20), Next.js (11), .NET (1) |
| Example projects | nirholas/three.ws, Poly-Haven/polyhaven.com, mkellerman/bmad-mcp-server, RajjjAryan/career-copilot, mdrakiburrahman/spark-sandbox |
Alternatives to fast-xml-parser
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful Soup pypi Python HTML/XML parsing and screen-scraping library for web data extraction. |
160 (1.3%) | 69M | — | MIT License |
| Puppeteer npm Headless Chrome/Chromium automation for scraping, testing and screenshot generation. |
115 (0.9%) | 11.4M | 95.7K | Apache-2.0 |
| lxml pypi High-performance XML and HTML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with Python. |
98 (0.8%) | 88.4M | 3,065 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Cheerio npm jQuery-like syntax for parsing and manipulating HTML/XML with server-side speed. |
94 (0.7%) | 26.6M | 30.5K | MIT |
| Playwright (Python) pypi High-level Python API for automating browser testing and web scraping. |
68 (0.5%) | 26M | 15K | — |
| csv-parse npm Parse CSV files using Node.js streaming Transform API for memory-efficient processing. |
51 (0.4%) | 20.6M | 4,280 | MIT |
| Playwright Core npm Headless browser automation library for cross-browser testing and web scraping. |
49 (0.4%) | 122M | 97.4K | Apache-2.0 |
| soupsieve pypi CSS selector implementation for BeautifulSoup to query HTML and XML documents. |
39 (0.3%) | 70.4M | 271 | — |