xidel

Download and extract data from HTML/XML pages as well as JSON APIs.

• Print all URLs found by a Google search:

xidel {https://www.google.com/search?q=test} --extract "//a/extract(@href, 'url[?]q=([^&]+)&', 1)[. != '']"

• Print the title of all pages found by a Google search and download them:

xidel {https://www.google.com/search?q=test} --follow "{//a/extract(@href, 'url[?]q=([^&]+)&', 1)[. != '']}" --extract {//title} --download {'{$host}/'}

• Follow all links on a page and print the titles, with XPath:

xidel {https://example.org} --follow {//a} --extract {//title}

• Follow all links on a page and print the titles, with CSS selectors:

xidel {https://example.org} --follow "{css('a')}" --css {title}

• Follow all links on a page and print the titles, with pattern matching:

xidel {https://example.org} --follow "{{.}*}" --extract "{}"

• Read the pattern from example.xml (which will also check if the element containing "ood" is there, and fail otherwise):

xidel {path/to/example.xml} --extract "{ood{.}}"

• Print all newest Stack Overflow questions with title and URL using pattern matching on their RSS feed:

xidel {http://stackoverflow.com/feeds} --extract "{{uri:=@href}+}"

• Check for unread Reddit mail, Webscraping, combining CSS, XPath, JSONiq, and automatically form evaluation:

xidel {https://reddit.com} --follow "{form(css('form.login-form')[1], {'user': '$your_username', 'passwd': '$your_password'})}" --extract "{css('#mail')/@title}"

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