How can I traverse HTML DOM with Swift - html

Question

I have an http POST response which I receive in HTML. Now I want to display the results in my view Controller. How can I parse the DOM of the response to get the elements I want?
This is the response in raw html:
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">1</td>
<td>9.99</td>
<td style="text-align:center;" class="show_on_masters hide"></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1.4</td>
<td>DE GRASSE, ANDRE</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">ON</td>
<td>
<div data-tooltip="Speed Academy Athletics Club">SAAC</div>
</td>
<td>94</td>
<td>2</td>
<!--<td class="rankings_hide_992">UF Tom Jones Invitational (Olympic Development)</td>-->
<!--<td class="rankings_hide_768">Gainesville , FL</td>-->
<td>
<div data-tooltip="UF Tom Jones Invitational (Olympic Development)" style="cursor:default;">Gainesville , FL</div>
</td>
<td>17/04/2021</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">2</td>
<td>10.08</td>
<td style="text-align:center;" class="show_on_masters hide"></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">1.9</td>
<td>BROWN, AARON</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">ON</td>
<td>
<div data-tooltip="Phoenix Athletics Assoc. of Ontario">PHNX</div>
</td>
<td>92</td>
<td>7</td>
<!--<td class="rankings_hide_992">World Athletics - Miramar</td>-->
<!--<td class="rankings_hide_768">Miramar, FL</td>-->
<td>
<div data-tooltip="World Athletics - Miramar" style="cursor:default;">Miramar, FL</div>
</td>
<td>10/04/2021</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align:center;">3</td>
<td>10.14</td>
<td style="text-align:center;" class="show_on_masters hide"></td>
<td style="text-align:center;">0.7</td>
<td>WARNER, DAMIAN</td>
<td style="text-align:center;">ON</td>
<td>
<div data-tooltip="London Western T.F.C.">LWTF</div>
</td>
<td>89</td>
<td>1dec5</td>
<!--<td class="rankings_hide_992">Hypo-Meeting</td>-->
<!--<td class="rankings_hide_768">Götzis, AUT</td>-->
<td>
<div data-tooltip="Hypo-Meeting" style="cursor:default;">Götzis, AUT</div>
</td>
<td>29/05/2021</td>
</tr>
I'm currently trying to use HTMLKit based on a couple tutorials, but I can't truly traverse the DOM with this library. Any ideas?
HTMLKit Tutorial
HTMLKit Video Tutorial

Answer 1

You can try SwiftSoup library that allows HTML parsing.
Usage
do {
let html: String = "<p>An <a href='http://example.com/'><b>example</b></a> link.</p>";
let doc: Document = try SwiftSoup.parse(html)
let link: Element = try doc.select("a").first()!
let text: String = try doc.body()!.text(); // "An example link"
let linkHref: String = try link.attr("href"); // "http://example.com/"
let linkText: String = try link.text(); // "example""
let linkOuterH: String = try link.outerHtml(); // "<b>example</b>"
let linkInnerH: String = try link.html(); // "<b>example</b>"
} catch Exception.Error(let type, let message) {
print(message)
} catch {
print("error")
}