HXEXTRACT(1)

💖 hxextract — extract selected elements from a HTML or XML file 💖

okay bestie, welcome to hxextract(1) from the HTML-XML-utils fam 🫶 this is the one that pulls specific lil elements out of your HTML or XML and hands them to you. it's giving "surgical extraction, but make it cute" ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hxextract [ -h | -? ] [ -x ] [ -s text ] [ -e text ] [ -b base ]
element-or-class [ -c configfile | file-or-URL ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea: hxextract outputs all elements with a certain name and/or class. all of them. every single one. no gatekeeping 💅

⚠️ real talk though: the input must be well-formed, because no HTML heuristics are applied. none. zero. it is not gonna hold your hand and fix your broken markup, bestie 😭

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here's everything you can throw at it:

• -x — use XML format conventions. yes queen, switch up the format ✨
• -s text — insert text at the start of the output 🌸
• -e text — insert text at the end of the output 🦋
• -b base — the URL base 🎀
• -c configfile — read @chapter lines from configfile (those lines have to be of the form "@chapter filename") and extract elements from each of those files. it's giving "batch mode, but make it config file" 💅
• -h, -? — print command usage. the classic "help me pls" move 🙈

👑 OPERANDS 👑

the operands, the main characters of this whole operation:

• element-or-class — the name of an element to extract (e.g., "H2"), or the name of a class preceded by . (e.g., ".example"), or a combination of both (e.g., "H2.example"). pick your fighter ⭐
• file-or-URL — a file name or a URL. wanna read from standard input? use "-" 💖

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

tryna use a proxy to retrieve remote files? set the environment variables http_proxy and ftp_proxy. for example:

http_proxy="http://localhost:8080/"

slay, now you're tunneling through 🧚

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so, the not-so-iconic parts, we're keeping it real:

• remote files (the ones specified with a URL) are currently only supported for HTTP. periodt.
• password-protected files, or files that depend on HTTP "cookies", are not handled. nope. not even a little. 😭
• > but bestie, you can use tools such as curl(1) or wget(1) to retrieve such files. werk around it 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• hxselect(1) — go say hi, it's the sibling ✨

and that's the whole vibe check! this page is from HTML-XML-utils, version 7.x, dated 10 Jul 2011 — so yes, she's a lil vintage, but she still eats 💖 stay well-formed out there, bestie 🫶✨