https://github.com/blahah/beau-selector
Run XPath or CSS selectors on arbitrary X(HT)ML documents in the command-line
https://github.com/blahah/beau-selector
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Run XPath or CSS selectors on arbitrary X(HT)ML documents in the command-line
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/blahah/beau-selector
- Owner: blahah
- License: mit
- Created: 2016-01-16T11:41:33.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2016-08-09T11:22:53.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-27T19:13:19.140Z (6 months ago)
- Language: CoffeeScript
- Homepage: https://youtu.be/vEtWdI9FByA?t=47s
- Size: 29.3 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE-MIT
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## beau-selector
When I say `bo`, [you say 'selector'](https://youtu.be/vEtWdI9FByA?t=47s).
Run XPath or CSS selectors on arbitrary X(HT)ML documents in the command-line.
## installation
```
npm install --global beau-selector
```
## usage
Just pipe a document to `bo` and provide a selector!
```
Usage: bo [xpath|css]
If no attribute is given, innerHTML, text or a plain string
will be returned (depending on what is matched)
Options:
-o, --outer get outer XML of the element
-a, --attribute
-l, --loglevel [default: "silent"]
```
You can also optionally specify:
- `--outer` to return the full outer markup of selected elements
- `--attribute ` an attribute to extract from the selected element (which will only apply *if* what was selected is an element), e.g. `--attribute href`
- `--loglevel ` to be more shouty, e.g `--loglevel verbose`
## examples
css selectors
```
# get anchor elements from some_document.html
cat some_document.html | bo 'a'
# this time get the hrefs
cat some_document.html | bo `a` --atribute href
```
xpath selectors
```
# get inner HTML of divs from google.com
wget -O - http://google.com | bo '//div'
# get the outer XML of all figures from a paper in EuropePMC
curl -L --silent \
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/PMC1318471/fullTextXML \
| bo "//*[local-name()='fig']" --outer
```
## boring stuff
license: MIT
created by: Rik Smith-Unna
forked from: [cli-scrape](https://github.com/pthrasher/cli-scrape) and modded to take piped input rather than downloading directly, work on XML, and have some more powerful options