parse5
Fast, spec-compliant HTML parser and serializer for Node.js and browsers.
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How parse5 is used
parse5 is a dependency in 12 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 44 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Cheerio (74 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Model Context Protocol SDK (JavaScript) (81.8%), Zod (84.1%), Express (68.2%).
parse5 popularity over time
Gid Score 62: downloads 100, use in agent projects 39, GitHub stars 34, downloads trend 60 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with parse5
| Model Context Protocol SDK (JavaScript) | 81.8% of parse5 projects · 8.6× more than average |
|---|---|
| Zod | 84.1% of parse5 projects · 3.4× more than average |
| Express | 68.2% of parse5 projects · 10.1× more than average |
| tsx | 68.2% of parse5 projects · 4.5× more than average |
| ioredis | 65.9% of parse5 projects · 40.9× more than average |
| DOMPurify | 63.6% of parse5 projects · 43.4× more than average |
| jsdom | 56.8% of parse5 projects · 5.8× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 84.1% of parse5 projects · 2.6× more than average |
From all 44 projects in our scan that use parse5, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Gemini CLI | 1.5% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list parse5 as a dependency.
How parse5 is funded
Open Collective: parse5
| Received, last 12 months | $96 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $60 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $261 |
| Raised since the start | $261 |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $4 · $4 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +104% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 1 |
Apr 2022Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Apr 2022. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @fb55 | 7 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes Cheerio, htmlparser2.
Ways to fund parse5
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective Own page
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub and in the npm package. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install parse5 |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (24), Next.js (19), Python (1) |
| Example projects | thedotmack/claude-mem, diegosouzapw/OmniRoute, NG-ZORRO/ng-zorro-antd, frank890417/taiwan-md, ai-integr8tor/diegosouzapw-OmniRoute |
Alternatives to parse5
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside parse5 are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheerio npm jQuery-like syntax for parsing and manipulating HTML/XML with server-side speed. |
73 | 74 (1.5%) | 15.5M | 30.5K | MIT |
| linkedom npm Lightweight DOM implementation using linked lists for Node.js. |
51 | 35 (0.7%) | 3.2M | 2,088 | ISC |
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