We discussed data type providers earlier. F# also has dynamic API support for faster and dynamic data retrieval. It contains CSV, HTML, JSON parsers, and also tools for HTTP request parsing. Let's briefly discuss each of them:
- CSV parser: To access data dynamically, we can use the CSV parser. The afore mentioned CSV provider is built on top of the F# CSV parser. The FSharp.Data namespace has the CsvFile type, which provides two methods for loading data: the Parse method for string data, and the Load method for reading data from a file or any web source (example: CsvFIle.Load(<file path>)).
- HTML parser: It parses HTML documents into the DOM. When it gets parsed into DOM, F# supports many extension functions for HTML DOM ...