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| # scrape | ||
| # scrape cli | ||
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| It's the command-line version of the [great scraping tool](https://github.com/jeroenjanssens/data-science-at-the-command-line/blob/master/tools/scrape) written by [Jeroen Janssens](http://jeroenjanssens.com). | ||
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| It extracts HTML elements using an XPath query or CSS3 selector. | ||
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| Example usage: | ||
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| ``` | ||
| $ curl -L 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states' -s \ | ||
| | scrape -be 'table.wikitable > tbody > tr > td > b > a' | ||
| ``` | ||
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| It gives you back: | ||
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| ```html | ||
| <html> | ||
| <head> | ||
| </head> | ||
| <body> | ||
| <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan"> | ||
| Afghanistan | ||
| </a> | ||
| <a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania"> | ||
| Albania | ||
| </a> | ||
| <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria"> | ||
| Algeria | ||
| </a> | ||
| <a href="/wiki/Andorra" title="Andorra"> | ||
| Andorra | ||
| </a> | ||
| <a href="/wiki/Angola" title="Angola"> | ||
| Angola | ||
| </a> | ||
| <a href="/wiki/Antigua_and_Barbuda" title="Antigua and Barbuda"> | ||
| Antigua and Barbuda | ||
| </a> | ||
| <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina"> | ||
| Argentina | ||
| </a> | ||
| <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia"> | ||
| Armenia | ||
| </a> | ||
| </body> | ||
| </html> | ||
| ``` |