Lib.rs

xpath is a command line utility to evaluate XPath expressions on XML or HTML documents. It is a small wrapper around the libxml2 library.

Example

Use it for HTML

$ curl -L https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random | xpath '//h1/span/text()'
Vampire bat

Or XML

$ curl -L https://osm.org/api/0.6/changeset/157745397 | xpath '//changeset/tag[@k = "comment"]/@v'
This Starbucks was torn down, seemingly to have extra space to put Halloween candy on display.

Installation

This tool is written in Rust, so you'll need to install the Rust compiler to build it.

Once you have, clone this repository, cd into it, and run cargo install --path . to compile and install.