xidel
0.9.8
https://gitea.miquellionel.ovh/lili/xidel_chocolatey
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Xidel
Benito van der Zander
http://www.videlibri.de/xidel.html
2019 Xidel videlibri
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xidel html xml json api parser
Xidel is a command line tool to download and extract data from HTML/XML pages as well as JSON APIs .
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[choco://xidel](choco://xidel)
To use choco:// protocol URLs, install [(unofficial) choco:// Protocol support ](https://chocolatey.org/packages/choco-protocol-support)
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It supports:
Extract expressions:
- CSS 3 Selectors: to extract simple elements
- XPath 3.0: to extract values and calculate things with them
- XQuery 3.0: to create new documents from the extracted values
- JSONiq: to work with JSON apis
- Templates: to extract several expressions in an easy way using a annotated version of the page for pattern-matching
- XPath 2.0/XQuery 1.0: compatibility mode for the old XPath/XQuery version
Following:
- HTTP Codes: Redirections like 30x are automatically followed, while keeping things like cookies
- Links: It can follow all links on a page as well as some extracted values
- Forms: It can fill in arbitrary data and submit the form
Output formats:
- Adhoc: just prints the data in a human readable format
- XML: encodes the data as XML
- HTML: encodes the data as HTML
- JSON: encodes the data as JSON
- bash/cmd: exports the data as shell variables
Connections: HTTP / HTTPS as well as local files or stdin
Systems: Windows (using wininet), Linux (using synapse+openssl), Mac (synapse)
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