htmlq mit Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• htmlq

Projektgeschichte

The upstream README describes htmlq as a tool that extracts pieces of HTML files with CSS selectors. Michael Maclean's project post says it grew out of web-scraping work where Python and BeautifulSoup were workable but slow to start repeatedly inside shell-oriented loops.

The public release stream is small and concentrated: tags show v0.2.0 and v0.3.0 in September 2021 and v0.4.0 in January 2022. That pattern matches a focused utility whose interface stabilized around selector extraction, text output, attribute extraction, and shell installation paths.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The README lists Cargo, FreeBSD pkg, Homebrew, and Scoop installation paths, while the input package facts also record Alpine, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, and Scoop packaging. That spread is notable for a small Rust CLI because it shows adoption by users who want jq-like HTML querying without writing per-task scripts.

Wie es verwendet wird

htmlq is used in pipelines that fetch or read HTML and then select elements with CSS selectors. It is adjacent to `jq` workflows, but chooses web-native selectors instead of JSON paths, making it useful for one-off scraping, documentation checks, and command-line extraction from generated HTML.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, htmlq is a neat example of the Rust single-binary CLI wave: a narrowly scoped tool, easy to install through Cargo or OS package managers, with a name and interface that map an existing Unix mental model from JSON to HTML.

Zeitleiste

• 2021: v0.2.0 was tagged in September.
• 2021: v0.3.0 was tagged later the same month.
• 2022: v0.4.0 was tagged in January.
• Package-manager era: The README and input package facts record Cargo, FreeBSD pkg, Homebrew, Scoop, Alpine, MacPorts, Nix, and Arch availability.

Related projects

• htmlq is conceptually related to `jq`, but targets HTML rather than JSON. Its implementation space is adjacent to scraper libraries such as BeautifulSoup and command-line HTML/XML tools such as `pup`, `xmllint`, and selector-aware web scraping utilities.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/mgdm/htmlq/commits/1361c8c46811dd7b961c3fe9c6b04f9318a345e8
• https://api.github.com/repos/mgdm/htmlq/commits/5cae41f69bebd28a6ea6dea25fd8ab66f408f706
• https://api.github.com/repos/mgdm/htmlq/tags?per_page=20
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/htmlq
• https://github.com/mgdm/htmlq
• https://github.com/mgdm/htmlq/releases
• https://mgdm.net/weblog/htmlq-revisited/