query web
for network
execute selector query on html/web
Signature
> query web --query --as-html --attribute --as-table --inspect
Parameters
--query {string}
: selector query--as-html
(-m)
: return the query output as html--attribute {string}
: downselect based on the given attribute--as-table {table}
: find table based on column header list--inspect
(-i)
: run in inspect mode to provide more information for determining column headers
Input/output types:
input | output |
---|---|
any | any |
Examples
Retrieve all <header>
elements from phoronix.com website
> http get https://phoronix.com | query web -q 'header'
Retrieve a html table from Wikipedia and parse it into a nushell table using table headers as guides
> http get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_India_by_population
| query web -t [Rank City 'Population(2011)[3]' 'Population(2001)[3][a]' 'State or union territory']
Pass multiple css selectors to extract several elements within single query, group the query results together and rotate them to create a table
> http get https://www.nushell.sh | query web -q 'h2, h2 + p' | group 2 | each {rotate --ccw tagline description} | flatten
Retrieve a specific html attribute instead of the default text
> http get https://example.org | query web --query a --attribute href