Command-line tool

xidel

brew/xidel

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XPath/XQuery 3.0, JSONiq interpreter to extract data from HTML/XML/JSON

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Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

scoop install xidel

macOS

brew install xidel

Linux

brew install xidel

Print all URLs found by a Google search

xidel https://www.google.com/search?q=test -e "//a/extract(@href, 'url[?]q=([^&]+)&', 1)[. != '']"

Print the title of all pages found by a Google search and download them

xidel https://www.google.com/search?q=test -f "//a/extract(@href, 'url[?]q=([^&]+)&', 1)[. != '']" -e //title --download '{$host}/'

Follow all links on a page and print the titles, with XPath

xidel https://example.org -f //a -e //title

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