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.

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  1. xq

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    Command-line XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    • xq is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Xidel.

    • xq is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Xidel.

    • xq is Free and Open SourceXidel is also Free and Open Source
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    XMLStarlet

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    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.

    3 XMLStarlet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     

    • XMLStarlet is the most popular Windows alternative to Xidel.

    • XMLStarlet is Free and Open SourceXidel is also Free and Open Source
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    TXR

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    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
     

  5. xmllint

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    command line XML tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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