pager

version number: 0.0.1 author: Zhike Chen

Overview

A python command line tool that can parse html page, extract and print html elements.

Installation / Usage

To install use pip(not publish yet):

# $ pip install pager

Or clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/kk17/pager.git
$ python setup.py install

Usage

$ Usage: pager [OPTIONS] URL [SELECTORS]...

Options:
  -P, --pipe            pipe mode
  -e, --encoding TEXT   page encoding
  --ignore-links        ignore html links in markdown format
  -s, --separator TEXT  separator between multi elements, default to empty
  -F, --format TEXT     print format, available formats are: `markdown-text`,
                        `html`, `text`, pretty-html`, default to `markdown-
                        text`
  --help                Show this message and exit.

Example

pager -e gb2312  http://www.meijutt.com/content/meiju158.html 'div.down_list' [0] 'ul li a' [href]

pager -s --- https://www.qiushibaike.com/hot 'div.content' | mdv -

pager -s --- https://mnemonicdictionary.com/\?word\=vague 'div.media-body > div' [1] and 'div.mnemonic-card div.card-body div.card-text p' [:3] | mdv -

The mdv above is a Styled Terminal Markdown Viewer, mdv is currently python2 only, for python 3 you can install this branch: rachmadaniHaryono/terminal_markdown_viewer at fix-python35 or use axiros/mdvl: Lightweight markdown terminal renderer instead.

Contributing

TBD