Get help!
</div>
```
Find all the links in a page
console
$ curl --silent https://www.rust-lang.org/ | htmlq --attribute href a
/
/tools/install
/learn
/tools
/governance
/community
https://blog.rust-lang.org/
/learn/get-started
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/04/25/Rust-1.34.1.html
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/12/06/Rust-1.31-and-rust-2018.html
[...]
Get the text content of a post
```console $ curl --silent https://nixos.org/nixos/about.html | htmlq --text .main
About NixOS
NixOS is a GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. In existing distributions, actions such as upgrades are dangerous: upgrading a package can cause other packages to break, upgrading an entire system is much less reliable than reinstalling from scratch, you can’t safely test what the results of a configuration change will be, you cannot easily undo changes to the system, and so on. We want to change that. NixOS has many innovative features:
[...] ```
Remove a node before output
There's a big SVG image in this page that I don't need, so here's how to remove it.
```console $ curl --silent https://nixos.org/ | ./target/debug/htmlq '.whynix' --remove-nodes svg
-
Reproducible
Nix builds packages in isolation from each other. This ensures that they are reproducible and don't have undeclared dependencies, so if a package works on one machine, it will also work on another.
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Declarative
Nix makes it trivial to share development and build environments for your projects, regardless of what programming languages and tools you’re using.
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Reliable
Nix ensures that installing or upgrading one package cannot break other packages. It allows you to roll back to previous versions, and ensures that no package is in an inconsistent state during an upgrade.
```
Pretty print HTML
(This is a bit of a work in progress)
console
$ curl --silent https://mgdm.net | htmlq --pretty '#posts'
<section id="posts">
<h2>I write about...
</h2>
<ul class="post-list">
<li>
<time datetime="2019-04-29 00:%i:1556496000" pubdate="">
29/04/2019</time><a href="/weblog/nettop/">
<h3>Debugging network connections on macOS with nettop
</h3></a>
<p>Using nettop to find out what network connections a program is trying to make.
</p>
</li>
[...]
Syntax highlighting with bat
console
$ curl --silent example.com | htmlq 'body' | bat --language html
