Xidel

Xidel is a command line tool to download and extract data from HTML/XML pages as well as JSON APIs.

Features

CSS 3 Selectors: to extract elements unchanged
XPath 3.0: to extract values and calculate things with them
XQuery 3.0: to create new documents from the extracted values and to build Turing-complete scripts
Pattern matching: to extract several expressions in an easy way using an annotated version of the input page for pattern-matching
XPath 2.0/XQuery 1.0: compatibility mode for old XPath/XQuery versions
JSONiq: to work with JSON APIs (deprecated by XPath 3.1)

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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