Command-line tool

htmlq

brew/htmlq

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Uses CSS selectors to extract bits content from HTML files

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

scoop install htmlq
cargo install htmlq

macOS

brew install htmlq
cargo install htmlq

Linux

brew install htmlq
cargo install htmlq

Return all elements of class `card`

cat path/to/file.html | htmlq '.card'

Get the text content of the first paragraph

cat path/to/file.html | htmlq -t 'p:first-of-type'

Find all the links in a page

cat path/to/file.html | htmlq -a href 'a'

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