A HTML processor inspired by jq (https://github.com/stedolan/jq)
- meson
- modest (https://github.com/lexborisov/Modest)
meson build && ninja -C build
The executable will be built to build/hq.
- modest (https://github.com/lexborisov/Modest)
hq (html query) - commandline HTML processor © Mara Robin Broda, 2018
Usage: build/hq [options] <selector> <mode> [mode argument]
Options:
-h, --help
show this text
-f, --file <file>
file to read (defaults to stdin)
-d, --delimiter <delim>
delimiter character to use between results (defaults to newline)
-0, --null
uses \0 as delimiter
<selector>
CSS selector to match against
<mode>
processing mode
may be one of { data, text, attr }:
data - return raw html of matching elements
text - return inner text of matching elements
[mode argument: formatting]
supported modes: { plain, ansi, md }
default: plain
for plain, ANSI, or markdown formatted output respectively
attr - return attribute value of matching elements
<mode argument: attr>
attribute to return
Examples:
curl -sSL https://example.com | build/hq a data
curl -sSL https://example.com | build/hq a attr href
curl -s https://coderobe.net | hq a data
<a href="https://keybase.io/coderobe">Keybase (coderobe)</a>
<a href="https://github.com/coderobe">Github (coderobe)</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/coderobe">Twitter (coderobe)</a>
curl -s https://coderobe.net | hq a text
Keybase (coderobe)
Github (coderobe)
Twitter (coderobe)
curl -s https://coderobe.net | hq a attr href
https://keybase.io/coderobe
https://github.com/coderobe
https://twitter.com/coderobe
You get the idea.
This work, written by Mara Robin Broda (coderobe) in 2018, is licensed under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0