TIL jq and htmlq
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TAGS: commandline curl
Today I learned about jq and htmlq, which are two command line libraries that make curl requests then return filtered data!
jq #
Repo: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
How it looks:
// command line
jq '.[0] | {message: .commit.message, name: .commit.committer.name}'
// Result
{
"message": "Merge pull request #162 from stedolan/utf8-fixes\n\nUtf8 fixes. Closes #161",
"name": "Stephen Dolan"
}
htmlq #
Repo: https://github.com/mgdm/htmlq
Like jq, but for HTML. Uses CSS selectors to extract bits of content from HTML files.
How it looks
// command
curl --silent https://www.rust-lang.org/ | htmlq '#get-help'
// Result
<div class="four columns mt3 mt0-l" id="get-help">
<h4>Get help!</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://users.rust-lang.org">Ask a Question on the Users Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ping.rust-lang.org">Check Website Status</a></li>
</ul>
<div class="languages">
<label class="hidden" for="language-footer">Language</label>
<select id="language-footer">
<option title="English (US)" value="en-US">English (en-US)</option>
<option title="French" value="fr">Français (fr)</option>
<option title="German" value="de">Deutsch (de)</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
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