pup: Parsing HTML at the Command Line

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  • pup

    Parsing HTML at the command line

    • 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

  • xpe

    Finally, a commandline xpath tool for linux that is easy to use.

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  • xidel

    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.

  • fq

    jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats

  • hq

    lightweight command line HTML processor using CSS and XPath selectors

    • This has support for both XPath and CSS selectors: https://github.com/ludovicianul/hq

  • lol-html

    Low output latency streaming HTML parser/rewriter with CSS selector-based API

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