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HTML-XML-utils vs Xidel: catalog facts
HTML-XML-utils	Xidel
Free Free software distributed as source archives.	Free Free and open source under GPL-3.0-or-later.
Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Command line
Includes utilities for extraction, cleanup and transformation Provides CSS selector support and link listing	Supports CSS, XPath, and XQuery extraction Can query JSON APIs and local JSON files
Some features require optional libidn or libidn2 support to handle internationalized domain names.	HTTPS connections on Linux require OpenSSL, including openssl-dev, and libcrypto.
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: W3C	License: GPL-3.0-or-later
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 8, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 8, 2026

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