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Xidel vs HTML-XML-utils: catalog facts
Xidel	HTML-XML-utils
Free Free and open source under GPL-3.0-or-later.	Free Free software distributed as source archives.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Command line	Command line
Supports CSS, XPath, and XQuery extraction Can query JSON APIs and local JSON files	Includes utilities for extraction, cleanup and transformation Provides CSS selector support and link listing
HTTPS connections on Linux require OpenSSL, including openssl-dev, and libcrypto.	Some features require optional libidn or libidn2 support to handle internationalized domain names.
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0-or-later	License: W3C
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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