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Lol html

Low output latency streaming HTML parser/rewriter with CSS selector-based API

From cloudflare·Updated June 25, 2026·View on GitHub·

***L**ow **O**utput **L**atency streaming **HTML** rewriter/parser with CSS-selector based API.* The project is written primarily in Rust, distributed under the BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License license, first published in 2019. It has gained significant community traction with 2,018 stars and 98 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: css-selectors, html, parser, rewriting, rust.

Latest release: v3.0.0
June 2, 2026View Changelog →

LOL HTML

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Low Output Latency streaming HTML rewriter/parser with CSS-selector based API.

It is designed to modify HTML on the fly with minimal buffering. It can quickly handle very large
documents, and operate in environments with limited memory resources. More details can be found in the blog post.

The crate serves as a back-end for the HTML rewriting functionality of
Cloudflare Workers, but can be used
as a standalone library with a convenient API for a wide variety of HTML rewriting/analysis tasks.

Documentation

https://docs.rs/lol_html/

Bindings for other programming languages

  • C
  • Lua
  • Go (unofficial, not coming from Cloudflare)
  • Ruby (unofficial, not coming from Cloudflare)

Example

Rewrite insecure hyperlinks:

rust
use lol_html::{element, HtmlRewriter, Settings}; fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> { let mut output = vec![]; let mut rewriter = HtmlRewriter::new( Settings::new().append_element_content_handler(element!("a[href]", |el| { let href = el .get_attribute("href") .expect("href was required") .replace("http:", "https:"); el.set_attribute("href", &href)?; Ok(()) })), |c: &[u8]| output.extend_from_slice(c), ); rewriter.write(b"<div><a href=")?; rewriter.write(b"http://example.com>")?; rewriter.write(b"</a></div>")?; rewriter.end()?; assert_eq!( String::from_utf8(output)?, r#"<div><a href="https://example.com"></a></div>"# ); Ok(()) }

License

BSD licensed. See the LICENSE file for details.

Contributors

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