danburzo/hred

Reduce HTML and XML to JSON from the command line, using an expressive query language inspired by CSS selectors.

hred's Issues

Flag to change output

À la jq:

• r for raw strings and such
• the opposite of s to output new-line delimited JSON objects, rather than a big array (to aid concatenation)

Clarify security considerations

Why should one be mindful when feeding untrusted HTML into hred if it doesn't run scripts?

Flag to read query from file.

I've found myself writing hred "$(<filename)" somewhat frequently, as queries are often just a little too large to ergonomically inline in a script.

Most major text stream processing tools with their own domain specific language, like jq, sed, and awk, can be invoked as prog -f filename instead of prog 'dsl code', so it would make sense for hred to have the same functionality.

Flag for base url

JSDOM could use the original URL where the HTML resided so that it can resolve relative hrefs and srcs to their absolute counterparts.