xmltodict vs xidel

xmltodict

Python module that makes working with XML feel like you are working with JSON (by martinblech)

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)

#Xquery #XML #HTML #JSON #Xpath #CLI #Command-line #HTTP #Web #REST #css-selector #wget #Curl #Httpie #xmlstarlet #webscraper #Webscraping #Scraper #datascraping #Data processing

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xmltodict		xidel
	Project
7	Mentions	17
5,022	Stars	538
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	6.6
4 months ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Python	Language	Pascal
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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xmltodict

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Top python libraries/ frameworks that you suggest every one
15 projects | reddit.com/r/Python | 28 Mar 2022

Nope, sorry, it's just an XML generator. The Python stdlib offers https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html and PyPI offers https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict for parsing, and you could write CSV with csvwriter or pandas.
Like JQ, but for HTML
21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2021

xmlstarlet is really nothing like jq, as a language. But yes, I use it because it is the best commandline xml processor I'd found. That's the only similarity to jq.
Is this the yq? https://kislyuk.github.io/yq/ It does contain an 'xq', as a literal wrapper for jq, piping output into it after transcoding XML to JSON using xmltodict https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict (which explodes xml into separate JSON data structures).
This is a bash one-liner! But TBF it really is a 'jq for xml'. I think it would be horrible for some things, but you could also do a lot of useful things painlessly.

xidel

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