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Re:Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform sourc... by namibj on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @05:31PM (#21197497)
This suggest a very scalable, easy approach to extract data from somewhat regular HTML...
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Re:Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform sourc... by Yetanfou on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @07:17PM (#21198334)
I generally use xidel [1] for that type of task. Feed it xpath, css selectors or its own pattern matching thing.

[1] https://github.com/benibela/xidel

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Re:Jtc – CLI tool to extract, manipulate and transform sourc... by benibela on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @06:18PM (#21197903)
or just use xpath
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