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 "{.}*" --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 "{title:=.}{uri:=@href}</link>+"

  • 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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