Xidel Alternatives
Xidel is described as 'Open-source command line tool to download x/html pages and then extract data from them using css 3 selectors, xpath 2 or pattern-matching templates' and is an app in the file sharing category. There are four alternatives to Xidel for Mac, Linux, Windows and BSD. The best Xidel alternative is xq, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Xidel are XMLStarlet, TXR and xmllint.
Alternatives list
- 3 XMLStarlet alternatives
XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
XMLStarlet is the most popular Windows alternative to Xidel.
- XMLStarlet is Free and Open Source
TXR is a pragmatic, convenient data munging language oriented toward processing of text from files or streams, using multiple programming paradigms. It is influenced by concepts from text processing languages such as awk or perl, pattern matching concepts from logic/AI...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux




