https://github.com/plainas/tq

Perform a lookup by CSS selector on an HTML input
https://github.com/plainas/tq

command-line command-line-tool css-selector json python

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Perform a lookup by CSS selector on an HTML input

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/plainas/tq
• Owner: plainas
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-12-21T16:35:46.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-27T15:33:43.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-27T04:06:25.602Z (15 days ago)
• Topics: command-line, command-line-tool, css-selector, json, python
• Language: Python
• Size: 43 KB
• Stars: 236
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# tq

tq is command line utility  that performs an HTML element selection on HTML content passed to the stdin. Using css selectors that everybody knows.

Since input comes from stdin and output is sent to stdout, it can easily be used inside traditional UNIX pipelines to extract content from webpages and html files.

tq provides extra formating options such as json-encoding or newlines squashing, so it can play nicely with everyones favourite command line tooling.

## Installation

	sudo pip3 install https://github.com/plainas/tq/zipball/stable

## Example usage

Get headlines from hacker news

	curl https://news.ycombinator.com/news | tq -tj ".title a"

Get the title of an html document stored in a file

	cat mydocument.html | tq -t title

Get all the images from a webpage

	curl -s 'http://example.com/' | tq  "img" -a src | wget -i -

Notice that tq doesn't provide a way to make http requests or read files. You can use your favorite HTTP client, or provide the html source from any source you want.

For a modern, user friendly http client, check httpie. Or you can just use curl, wget, netcat, etc.

## Command options

  * `SELECTOR`

    A css selector

  * `-a ATTRIBUTE --attr=ATTRIBUTE`

    Outputs only the contents of the html ATTRIBUTE.

  * `-t, --text`

    Outputs only the inner text of the selected elements.

  

  * `-p, --parent`

    Select the parent elements instead.

  * `-q, --squash`

    Squash lines.

  * `-s, --squash-space`

    Squash spaces.

  * `-j, --json-lines`

    JSON encode each match.

  * `-J, --json`

    Output as json array of strings.

  * `-v, --version`

    Prints tq version