{- html detection - - Copyright 2017 Joey Hess - - License: BSD-2-clause -} module Utility.HtmlDetect ( isHtml, isHtmlBs, htmlPrefixLength, ) where import Text.HTML.TagSoup import Data.Char import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as B import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as B8 -- | Detect if a String is a html document. -- -- The document many not be valid, or may be truncated, and will -- still be detected as html, as long as it starts with a -- "" or "" tag. -- -- Html fragments like "

this

" are not detected as being html, -- although some browsers may chose to render them as html. isHtml :: String -> Bool isHtml = evaluate . canonicalizeTags . parseTags . take htmlPrefixLength where evaluate (TagOpen "!DOCTYPE" ((t, _):_):_) = map toLower t == "html" evaluate (TagOpen "html" _:_) = True -- Allow some leading whitespace before the tag. evaluate (TagText t:rest) | all isSpace t = evaluate rest | otherwise = False -- It would be pretty weird to have a html comment before the html -- tag, but easy to allow for. evaluate (TagComment _:rest) = evaluate rest evaluate _ = False -- | Detect if a ByteString is a html document. isHtmlBs :: B.ByteString -> Bool -- The encoding of the ByteString is not known, but isHtml only -- looks for ascii strings. isHtmlBs = isHtml . B8.unpack -- | How much of the beginning of a html document is needed to detect it. -- (conservatively) htmlPrefixLength :: Int htmlPrefixLength = 8192