HTQ is a grep-like tool for extracting elements from html streams using CSS3 selectors. It uses the incomparable libmodest for html and css parsing and css selector filtering.
git submodule init
git submodule update
makeusage: htq [css_query] [option ...] [file ...]
-c QUERY, --css QUERY Specify a css selector
-a ATTR, --attr ATTR Extract an attribute value
-i SPACES, --indent SPACES Number of spaces for indent
-p, --pretty Pretty print output
-t, --text Print text content only
-0, --print0 Separate output by NULL
-l, --list Only print matching file names
-h, --prefix Print file name prefix
-H, --no-prefix Don't file name prefix
-C, --count Print the number of matches
--help Print help message
<!-- test.html -->
<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>Test Page</h1>
<blockquote>
<p>Oh how I wish I could shut up like a telescope!</p>
<p>I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.</p>
<footer> — Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</footer>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li><a href="#link-1">Link 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#link-2">Link 2</a></li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>$ htq p test.html
<p>Oh how I wish I could shut up like a telescope!</p>
<p>I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.</p>
$ htq p --text test.html
Oh how I wish I could shut up like a telescope!
I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.
$ htq a --attr href test.html
#link-1
#link-2
$ curl -s https://github.com/joelakuhn/htq | htq -c 'article h1' -c 'article h2' -t
HTQ
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