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Flutter-powered AI app builder A head-to-head of two Text Processing packages on pub.dev, by daily downloads, GitHub activity, and maintenance.
petitparser leads on usage with about 30.0x the daily downloads of html_unescape (368,195 vs 12,256 per day). petitparser has the larger GitHub following (486 vs 41 stars).
🇨🇿 filiph.net · v2.0.0
A small library for un-escaping HTML. Supports all Named Character References, Decimal Character References and Hexadecimal Character References.
🇨🇭 lukas-renggli.ch · v7.0.2
A dynamic parser framework to build efficient grammars and parsers quickly.
| Metric | html_unescape | petitparser |
|---|---|---|
| Downloads / day | 12,256 | 368,195 |
| Rank in Text Processing | #7 | #1 |
| GitHub stars | 41 | 486 |
| Likes | 181 | 400 |
| Pub points | 160 / 160 | 160 / 160 |
| Issue response (median) | — | — |
| Contributors | 5 | 16 |
| Last commit | 5 years ago | 1 month ago |
| CI | No | Yes |
| License | BSD-3-Clause | MIT |
| First published | 10 years ago | 13 years ago |
| Platforms | android, ios, windows, linux, macos, web | android, ios, windows, linux, macos, web |
Highlighted cell wins each comparable metric. For rank, issue response, and last commit, lower is better.