Xq
Like jq, but for XML and XPath.
Install / Use
/learn @jeffbr13/XqREADME
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>_
