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 Linux, Mac, Windows and BSD. The best alternative is xq, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Xidel are xmllint, XMLStarlet and TXR.

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Xidel

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Xidel is an open-source command line tool to download x/html pages and then extract data from them using css 3 selectors,...

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xq
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Command-line XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor.
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1. Syntax Highlightingxq supports syntax highlighting for various programming and markup languages.
xmllint
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command line XML tool.
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1. Command line interfacexmllint either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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XMLStarlet
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3 alternatives to XMLStarlet
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.
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1. Command line interfaceXMLStarlet either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. PortableXMLStarlet can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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TXR
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8 alternatives to TXR
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...
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1. Command line interfaceTXR either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. PortableTXR can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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