Xidel
A command-line tool for extracting and transforming data from HTML, XML, and JSON.
By Benito van der Zander
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About Xidel
Xidel downloads web pages or reads local files and extracts data with CSS selectors, XPath, XQuery, JSONiq, or pattern matching. It can follow links, submit forms, make HTTP requests, and output data as XML, HTML, JSON, or shell variables.
The project provides binaries for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android. The latest official release listed on its site is 0.9.8; development builds are also published irregularly.
Strengths
- Supports CSS, XPath, and XQuery extraction
- Can query JSON APIs and local JSON files
- Provides shell-friendly output formats
Limitations
- HTTPS connections on Linux require OpenSSL, including openssl-dev, and libcrypto.
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under GPL-3.0-or-later.
- License
- GPL-3.0-or-later
- Developer
- Benito van der Zander
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Scripters extracting structured data from web pages and APIs
- Categories
- CLI tools, Developer tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the Homebrew formula
- Sources