select-html/README.md

# Select 👁️ HTML

> **Extract HTML using CSS selectors in the command-line.**

## Features

* Input HTML using stdin or a file.
* Output full elements, inner text or attribute values.
* Trim excess whitespace from output.

## Installation

### Cargo

With a working [Rust and Cargo](https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started) installation, you can install `select-html` from [Crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/select-html).

```
cargo install select-html
```

### Binaries

Precompiled `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu` binaries are available on the [Releases page](https://git.bauke.xyz/Bauke/select-html/releases).

## Examples

```sh
# Use stdin to pipe HTML to select-html.
curl -s https://example.org | select-html

# Or use `--file`.
select-html --file 'example.html'

# Select and output HTML.
select-html 'title'

# Output only the inner text of selected elements.
select-html '.example' --text

# Output attribute values.
select-html '[property^="og:"]' -a 'property' -a 'content'
```

## Usage

```
USAGE:
    select-html [OPTIONS] <SELECTOR>

ARGS:
    <SELECTOR>    The CSS selector to use

OPTIONS:
    -a, --attribute <ATTRIBUTE>    Output the attribute's value from the selected element, can be
                                   used multiple times
        --file <FILE>              A HTML file to read, if not specified stdin will be used instead
    -h, --help                     Print help information
    -t, --text                     Output inner text of the selected elements
        --trim                     Trim whitespace from selected items
    -V, --version                  Print version information
```

## Feedback

Found a problem or want to request a new feature? Email [me@bauke.xyz](mailto:me@bauke.xyz) and I'll see what I can do for you.

## License

Distributed under the [AGPL-3.0-or-later](https://spdx.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0-or-later.html) license, see [LICENSE](https://git.bauke.xyz/Bauke/select-html/src/branch/main/LICENSE) for more information.