Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and other bash commands

Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by turtlebits on Monday August 15, 2016 @05:04PM (#12293437)

An xpath like `//table/tr/td[2]/a[1]/text()` seems like it would be a lot simpler.

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Re:Extracting data from Wikipedia using curl, grep, cut and ... by san_dimitri on Monday August 15, 2016 @06:20PM (#12293936)

This is my goto approach every time I have to parse html or XML. I still don't understand why people don't use something as simple as google spreadsheets and write a simple xpath to load tabular data using =IMPORTHTML().

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