selectolax

PublishedJun 26, 2026Last updatedJul 13, 2026

Parse HTML with CSS selectors in Python using a fast, MIT-licensed library built for large-scale extraction.

Verified against the rushter/selectolax repository and the PyPI package.

Selectolax is a fast HTML5 parser for Python extraction work. It supports CSS selectors and is built for reliable parsing at scale.

Key Features:

HTML5 Parsing - Parse modern HTML for structured extraction workflows
CSS Selectors - Find page elements with familiar selector syntax
Python Package - Available on PyPI with 7,048,291 downloads/month
Cython Codebase - Uses Cython as its primary language for performance-focused parsing
Open Source - MIT-licensed, with 1,640 GitHub stars and 91 forks

Categories:

HTML Parsers

Features:

HTML ParsingCSS SelectorsStructured ExtractionPython SDKOpen Source

Tags:

high-concurrency open-source python