xidel VS jsoup

You could try Xidel[1]. It supports JSON, XML and HTML using XPath/XQuery 3.1

It has some extensions to the standard that are pretty nice (JSONiq, CSS selectors, html “template” matching), but you can limit it to just standard XPath/XQuery if you like.

I recommend getting the nightly v .99 build if you give it a try, the stable .98 version is pretty old and I’ve had no issues with .99

1. https://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html

Windows binary of Xidel (https://github.com/benibela/xidel) a commandline tool to download and extract data from HTML pages

Xidel for extraction and pagination

Download an entire subreddit to JSON Lines with Xidel:

I believe that you can't read from a url with batch alone. you'll need a helper app like xidel https://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html

I have not played with this, but it looks like xidel might allow you to do this in Bash. jc also has a URL string parser that could be used in such a script.

I built Xidel for such authenticated requests:

2e. The HTML parsing library is in app-kt. It's called JSoup https://jsoup.org/

For parsing the webpage in Java or Kotlin you can use Jsoup

Jsoup — It is a Java library that can be used for both extracting and parsing HTML.

Finally, at this point, I was able to go through a bunch of webpages (parsing them in the process with JSoup), grab all the links that contained pdf files based on the file extension then download them. Unsurprisingly, most of the pages (~60-80%) ended up being unavailable (404 Not Found and friends). After a quick cup of coffee, I got the 10.000 documents on my hard drive. This is when I realized that I have one more problem to solve.

It might be better to use an HTML parser instead (this one looks good at first glance: https://jsoup.org/) although as long as you can make certain assumptions over the HTML input (for example that it'll always have those two attributes in this order) using regular expressions to parse it is feasible.

Poti folosi JSoup in Java https://jsoup.org/

There are five machine problems. None of the assignments took me longer than two to three hours, and the last one I completed in less than an hour. The MPs had been recently redesigned and tied together nicely. Each one covered a different course topic in the jsoup code base.

https://github.com/jhy/jsoup jsoup is a java library for parsing HTML. Intuitive API and extremely well readable code. I would definitely recommend this.