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Finally, a commandline xpath tool that is easy to use.

What is this?

xpe is a commandline xpath parser. Pipe in some textual data, supply it with an xpath expression, and it will dump the result to stdout. Perfect for shellscripting. For example:

curl -s example.com | xpe "//h1/text()"Example Domain

Alternatively, xpe can query a file for xpath expressions like so:

xpe '//a/@href' somefile.htm

The order doesn't matter, so the following is also valid:

xpe somefile.htm '//a/@href'

How to install

sudo pip3 install xpe

How to upgrade

sudo pip3 install -U xpe

Lately, I've been using xidel instead because it is faster. I created a gist for how to get xidel to act like xpe

https://gist.github.com/charmparticle/3253f75880d8daf546e5fb2dd4437213