blanch

Drop-in replacement for bleach, the deprecated HTML sanitization library.

Features

• Same API as bleach (clean, linkify, Cleaner, Linker, CSSSanitizer)
• Zero dependencies — uses html.parser from stdlib
• Python 3.10+
• Full type annotations

Installation

pip install blanch

Usage

import blanch

# Sanitize HTML
blanch.clean("<script>alert('xss')</script><b>hello</b>")
# '&lt;script&gt;alert(\'xss\')&lt;/script&gt;<b>hello</b>'

# Linkify URLs
blanch.linkify("Visit https://example.com")
# 'Visit <a href="https://example.com" rel="nofollow">https://example.com</a>'

Migrating from bleach

# Option 1: Replace import
# Before: import bleach
import blanch as bleach

# Option 2: Use compatibility layer
import blanch.compat.bleach as bleach

License

MIT