xq
Apply XPath expressions to XML, like jq
does for JSONPath and JSON.
Installation
Install with pip
::
pip install xq
Or download the repo and install via setuptools
::
python setup.py install
Usage
Extract download URLs from an RSS feed::
http get 'http://br-rss.jeffbr13.net/rss/channels/1/' | xq '//item/enclosure/@url'
Extract all links from an HTML page footer::
http get 'http://br-rss.jeffbr13.net/ | xq '//footer//a/@href'
Test
Run unittest
in the root directory to autodetect and run tests::
python -m unittest
Build
Increment xq.VERSION
and run the following two commands
to create a source distribution <https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/distributing-packages/#source-distributions>
,
create a universal wheel <https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/distributing-packages/#universal-wheels>
,
and upload to PyPI <https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/distributing-packages/#upload-your-distributions>
_ ::
python setup.py sdist
python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal
twine upload dist/*
See Also
jq <https://github.com/stedolan/jq>
_hq <https://github.com/rbwinslow/hq>
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