tq.1.md

tq(1) -- Terminal based HTML query tool

SYNOPSIS

cat file.html | tq [] SELECTOR

DESCRIPTION

Perform a css query with SELECTOR on an html document passed to the standard input.

OPTIONS

• SELECTOR A css selector

• -a ATTRIBUTE --attr=ATTRIBUTE Outputs only the contents of the html ATTRIBUTE.

• -t, --text Outputs only the inner text of the selected elements.

• -p, --parent Select the elements instead.

• -q, --squash Squash lines.

• -s, --squash-space Squash spaces.

• -j, --json-lines JSON encode each match.

• -J, --json Output as json array of strings.

• -v, --version Prints tq version

EXAMPLES

Get headlines from hacker news

curl https://news.ycombinator.com/news | tq -tj ".title a"

Download a gallery of nice forest pictures from flickr

curl -s 'https://www.flickr.com/photos/tgerus/galleries/72157622468645106/' \
    | tq  " .pc_img" -a src  \
    | wget -i

AUTHORS

tq was written by Pedro pedroghcode@gmail.com.

DISTRIBUTION

The latest version of tq may be downloaded from https://github.com/plainas/tq

SEE ALSO

curl(1), wget(1), jq(1)