Note: While the provided feed handler works for most feeds,
you might want to use [danmactough/node-feedparser](https://github.com/danmactough/node-feedparser), which is much better tested and actively maintained.
## Performance
After having some artificial benchmarks for some time, **@AndreasMadsen** published his [`htmlparser-benchmark`](https://github.com/AndreasMadsen/htmlparser-benchmark), which benchmarks HTML parses based on real-world websites.
At the time of writing, the latest versions of all supported parsers show the following performance characteristics on GitHub Actions (sourced from [here](https://github.com/AndreasMadsen/htmlparser-benchmark/blob/e78cd8fc6c2adac08deedd4f274c33537451186b/stats.txt)):
```
htmlparser2 : 2.17215 ms/file ± 3.81587
node-html-parser : 2.35983 ms/file ± 1.54487
html5parser : 2.43468 ms/file ± 2.81501
neutron-html5parser: 2.61356 ms/file ± 1.70324
htmlparser2-dom : 3.09034 ms/file ± 4.77033
html-dom-parser : 3.56804 ms/file ± 5.15621
libxmljs : 4.07490 ms/file ± 2.99869
htmljs-parser : 6.15812 ms/file ± 7.52497
parse5 : 9.70406 ms/file ± 6.74872
htmlparser : 15.0596 ms/file ± 89.0826
html-parser : 28.6282 ms/file ± 22.6652
saxes : 45.7921 ms/file ± 128.691
html5 : 120.844 ms/file ± 153.944
```
## How does this module differ from [node-htmlparser](https://github.com/tautologistics/node-htmlparser)?
In 2011, this module started as a fork of the `htmlparser` module.
`htmlparser2` was rewritten multiple times and, while it maintains an API that's mostly compatible with `htmlparser` in most cases, the projects don't share any code anymore.
The parser now provides a callback interface inspired by [sax.js](https://github.com/isaacs/sax-js) (originally targeted at [readabilitySAX](https://github.com/fb55/readabilitysax)).
As a result, old handlers won't work anymore.
The `DefaultHandler` and the `RssHandler` were renamed to clarify their purpose (to `DomHandler` and `FeedHandler`). The old names are still available when requiring `htmlparser2`, your code should work as expected.
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