tools VS xidel

Compare tools vs xidel and see what are their differences.

tools

all-in collection of productivity scripts, CLI tools, utility libraries, fuse filesystems, and also some stuff (by bAndie91)

xidel

Command line tool to download and extract data from HTML/XML pages or JSON-APIs, using CSS, XPath 3.0, XQuery 3.0, JSONiq or pattern matching. It can also create new or transformed XML/HTML/JSON documents. (by benibela)
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tools xidel
2 18
16 651
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9.4 5.6
1 day ago 8 days ago
Shell Pascal
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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tools

Posts with mentions or reviews of tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-13.
  • Ask HN: Share a shell script you like
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2023
    my collection: https://github.com/bAndie91/tools/tree/master/user-tools
  • Like JQ, but for HTML
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2021
    parsel[0] is a python script in front of the identically named python lib, and extracts parts of the HTML by CSS selector. the advantage of it compared to most similar tools is that you can navigate in the DOM tree up and down to find precisely what you want if the HTML is poorly marked up, or the searched parts are not close to each other.

    [0] https://github.com/bAndie91/tools/blob/master/usr/bin/parsel

xidel

Posts with mentions or reviews of xidel. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tools and xidel you can also consider the following projects:

htmlq - Like jq, but for HTML.

jq - Command-line JSON processor [Moved to: https://github.com/jqlang/jq]

lol-html - Low output latency streaming HTML parser/rewriter with CSS selector-based API

pup - Parsing HTML at the command line

cascadia - Go cascadia package command line CSS selector

gron - Make JSON greppable!

fontpreview - Highly customizable and minimal font previewer written in bash

yq - Command-line YAML, XML, TOML processor - jq wrapper for YAML/XML/TOML documents

tq - Perform a lookup by CSS selector on an HTML input

xmltodict - Python module that makes working with XML feel like you are working with JSON

hq - lightweight command line HTML processor using CSS and XPath selectors

xmlq - filter xml in the command line with xpath