pup VS org-web-tools

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

There is also org-web-tools which use pandoc to convert html to org-mode. You can use pandoc also in scripts.

There is also another great alphapapa package org-web-tools for those who only want org-mode format, or don’t use MacOS.

[org-web-tools] https://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools

You can use https://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools it can save a web pages as an org files and has some extra cool functionality.

Not sure what you mean by "filing cabinet." Org does have file attachments. See also https://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools for archiving Web pages with Org.

Also, not exactly related to your question, but you may find it useful: See https://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools, which also makes it easy to attach Web page archives.

Press c l to choose my commonplace-book link-capture template, which uses org-web-tools to insert an Org link with the Web page's title as the description: