Query HTML tags from the command line (like jq does for JSON)

Question

With jq one can query data in JSON files from the command line, what is useful for example when writing bash scripts, which just need one entry from a JSON file, like this

jq '.[0] | {message: .commit.message, name: .commit.committer.name}'

(Example taken from the tutorial)

I wonder if there are similar tools for HTML, which may for example accept an XPath or CSS selector as query and return the matching element(s).

Answer 1

I found this one https://github.com/mgdm/htmlq. There are some examples on the github page. e,i you can do something like this:

curl --silent https://www.rust-lang.org/ | htmlq '#get-help'