pup VS dotfiles

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

2) In addition, while using well made dotfiles has been helpful for learning and spring boarding on, I do struggle with understanding some of the file structure. For example, I've been using https://github.com/owl4ce/dotfiles to reference some of my files from, but while I understand the file content, I'm having difficulty understanding the locations and how they install from git. I'm trying to read about both the dotfile structuring as well as git repo structuring. Any good articles would be helpful.

This is the script. It's a pretty simple script. I would prefer not to call the command from the script directly because I want to be able to modify the script in the future.

Wallpaper: https://github.com/owl4ce/dotfiles/blob/main/.wallpaper/mechanical/raindrops-3_6K.jpg

Uses urxvt to display images with scripts. https://github.com/owl4ce/dotfiles/tree/master/.ncmpcpp

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