SCRAPER(1)

📦 version 0.29.0, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 SCRAPER(1) — like, the scraper manual page, bestie ✨

okay so real quick: this is scraper from section 1 of the manual (general commands, the iconic ones), and honestly? she's giving main character energy for anyone who's ever needed to poke at some HTML. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

scraper — HTML querying with CSS selectors. literally that's her whole thing, no cap 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

scraper [-HIcint] [-a attr] [-d | -f] selector [file ...]

like, you give her a selector and optionally some file ...s and she does the rest. slay 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so the scraper utility parses HTML and then outputs the elements that match your CSS selectors. that's it, that's the vibe. 🔥

the arguments are as follows (pay attention bestie, they're all important):

  • -H, --html — outputs the HTML of the matching elements. this one is the default btw, she's the baseline 👑
  • -I, --inner-html — outputs the inner HTML of the matching elements. yes there's a difference and yes it matters 💜
  • -a attr, --attr attr — outputs the value of the attribute attr of the matching elements. very specific, very demure 🎀
  • -c, --classes — outputs the classes of the matching elements. get those class names, periodt ✨
  • -d, --document — parses the input as HTML documents. this is the default too, so she's already doing it unless you say otherwise 🌈
  • -f, --fragment — parses the input as HTML fragments. for the lil pieces, iykyk 🧚
  • -i, --id — outputs the IDs of the matching elements. id supremacy fr fr 💖
  • -n, --name — outputs the names of the matching elements. name 'em and claim 'em 🦋
  • -t, --text — outputs the text of the matching elements. just the words, nothing extra 😭

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

the scraper utility exits 0 on success, 1 if no elements match, and >1 if an error occurs.

so like, if she comes back with a 1 it's not a crash, it's just "bestie i found nothing" 🙈 and anything above 1? that's a real error, be concerned 💀

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

  • June McEnroe <june@causal.agency>
  • Vivek Kushwaha <yoursvivek@gmail.com>

the scraper utility relies heavily on code from the Servo project: https://servo.org — iconic behavior honestly, standing on the shoulders of legends 👑

and that's the page!! 🍓 this edition shipped with Debian, dated October 29, 2018 — vintage but still serving 💅 stay nosy, stay querying, mwah 💜

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