xidel

Download and extract data from HTML/XML pages as well as JSON APIs. More information: https://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html.

• 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 "{{<a>{.}</a>*}}" --extract "{{<title>{.}</title>}}"

• 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 "{{<x><foo>ood</foo><bar>{.}</bar></x>}}"

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

xidel http://stackoverflow.com/feeds --extract "{{<entry><title>{title:=.}</title><link>{uri:=@href}</link></entry>+}}"

• 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"