ddgr VS pup

Using the shell commands plugin and ddgr, I managed to create a nice trick, which allows you to add the link to selected text without having to google it (hard to describe, but the gif should give you the idea). Here is how it works: - install the shell commands plugin https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=obsidian-shellcommands - install ddgr https://github.com/jarun/ddgr - add the following code as shell command: bash query="{{selection}}" link=$(ddgr --num=1 --json "$query" | grep "url" | cut -d'"' -f4) mdlink="[$query]($link)" echo -n "$mdlink" - in the settings for that shell command, set the stdout to "current file: caret position" - you are good to go. (Maybe give it a hotkey)

search from the CLI is hardly new.. some examples by jarun: - google: https://github.com/jarun/googler - duckduckgo: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr

Leveraging filter commands (i.e. :!) to easily/quickly manipulate lines or entire buffers/files. For example, :!date will run the external date and show you results, but :.!date (which is done by typing !! then date will run the external date command and put the result on the current line. But, also, if you have the word date on a line, then you can run :.!bash (which is done by typing !! then bash), which will execute the command date and replace the current line with the result. There are infinite uses for this, like :!sort (for sorting text), :!column -t (for aligning/tabulating text), :!awk for text manipulation, :!ddgr duckduckgo cli, ...etc

I like ddgr https://github.com/jarun/ddgr. Duckduckgo for the terminal. googler (https://github.com/jarun/googler) was great but google seem to have crippled it, at least for me. ddgr --site youtube.com QUERY .... You can use the builtin URL handler, or the JSON output, to pass the URL to a video player like mpv. yt-dlp is required for mpv to launch the video from URL.

Here is link number 1 - Previous text "Yes"

And lnk=$(curl -s https://www.selfstudys.com$url |grep "PDFFlip" | cut -d '"' -f 6) to lnk=$(curl -s https://www.selfstudys.com$url | pup "div#PDFF attr{source}" ) here pup will print content of source attribute from div tag with id PDFF i dont know that much about html & css so this is what i came up with. but i am sure you can also select class & make list of suburls from them. check out the video from bugswriter on pup or read docs from git hub for more info github link: https://github.com/ericchiang/pup

jq is pretty amazing. If you are comfortable with its jquery-like CSS selector syntax, then I should also mention a couple similar cli utilities that apply it to HTML: htmlp and pup.

Regex is not a great tool for parsing web pages. Open up a browser dev tools window and select a bit of the page. Right click > copy... XPath expression or CSS selector. A proper web scraping tool will accept either of those. No muss, no fuss. You can even use simple command line tools: xpath or pup

This is HTML to JSON, written in Rust, and there's also pup[1] which I found out about just the other day on HN[2] which uses a very similar syntax (CSS selectors) but outputs HTML and is written in Go.

I can see room for both though it would interesting to have a more detailed comparison to go on (e.g. types of HTML, speed etc).

[1] https://github.com/ericchiang/pup

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33805732

It looks like the project became inactive for a bit and there are alternatives such as htmlq, etc. https://github.com/ericchiang/pup/issues/150

Another tool worth mentioning is pup - it can produce JSON output which means you can pipe it to jq