I have a html file called myfile. If I simply put "cat myfile.html" in UNIX, it shows all the html tags like <a href=r/26><img src="http://www>. But I want to extract only text part.
Same problem happens in "type" command in MS-DOS.
I know you can do it by opening it in Internet Explorer,... (4 Replies)
hi
i need to use unix to extract data from several rows of a table coded in html. I know that rows within a table have the tags <tr> </tr> and so i thought that my first step should be to to delete all of the other html code which is not contained within these tags. i could then use this method... (8 Replies)
Hiya,
I am trying to extract a news article from a web page. The sed I have written brings back a lot of Javascript code and sometimes advertisments too. Can anyone please help with this one ??? I need to fix this sed so it picks up the article ONLY (don't worry about the title or date .. i got... (2 Replies)
Hello,
i try to extract urls from google-search-results, but i have problem with sed filtering of html-code.
what i wont is just list of urls thay apears between ........<p><a href=" and next following " in html code.
here is my code, i use wget and pipelines to filtering. wget works, but... (13 Replies)
Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum and i am new as a shell scripter.
my problem is to have html files in a directory and I would like to extract from these some data that lies between two different lines
Here's my situation
<td align="default"> oxidizability (mg / l):
data_to_extract... (6 Replies)
Hi
I've searched for it for few hours now and i can't seem to find anything working like i want. I've got webpage, saved in file par with form like this:
<html><body><form name='sendme' action='http://example.com/' method='POST'>
<textarea name='1st'>abc123def678</textarea>
<textarea... (9 Replies)
I have bash, awk, and sed available on my portable device. I need to extract 10 fields from each table row from a web page that looks like this:
</tr>
<tr>
<td>28 Apr</td>
<td><a... (6 Replies)
Hi, I'm trying to get some data from an html file, but the problem is before it can extract the information I have multiple patterns that need to be passed through.
https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/150711-extract-data-awk-html-files.html
Is a similar problem. The only... (5 Replies)
I'm extracting text between table tags in HTML
<th><a href="/wiki/Buick_LeSabre" title="Buick LeSabre">Buick LeSabre</a></th>
using this:
awk -F "</*th>" '/<\/*th>/ {print $2}' auto2 > auto3
then this (text between a href):
sed -e 's/\(<*>\)//g' auto3 > auto4
How to shorten this into one... (8 Replies)
I am trying to extract text after keywords fron an html file. The keywords are reportLink":, "barcodedSamples": {", "barcodedSamples": {". Both the perl and awk run but the output is just the entire index.html not the desired output. Also for the reportLink": only the text after the second / until... (5 Replies)
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hxextract
HXEXTRACT(1) HTML-XML-utils HXEXTRACT(1)NAME
hxextract - extract selected elements from a HTML or XML file
SYNOPSIS
hxextract [ -h | -? ] [ -x ] [ -s text ] [ -e text ] [ -b base ] element-or-class [ -c configfile | file-or-URL ]
DESCRIPTION
hxextract outputs all elements with a certain name and/or class.
Input must be well-formed, since no HTML heuristics are applied.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-x Use XML format conventions.
-s text Insert text at the start of the output.
-e text Insert text at the end of the output.
-b base URL base
-c configfile
Read @chapter lines from configfile (lines must be of the form "@chapter filename") and extract elements from each of those
files.
-h, -? Print command usage.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
element-or-class
The name of an element to extract (e.g., "H2"), or the name of a class preceded by "." (e.g., ".example") or a combination of
both (e.g., "H2.example").
file-or-URL
A file name or a URL. To read from standard input, use "-".
ENVIRONMENT
To use a proxy to retrieve remote files, set the environment variables http_proxy and ftp_proxy. E.g., http_proxy="http://localhost:8080/"
BUGS
Remote files (specified with a URL) are currently only supported for HTTP. Password-protected files or files that depend on HTTP "cookies"
are not handled. (You can use tools such as curl(1) or wget(1) to retrieve such files.)
SEE ALSO hxselect(1)6.x 10 Jul 2011 HXEXTRACT(1)