hq reads HTML and converts it into a JSON object based on a series of CSS selectors. The selectors are expressed in a similar way to JSON, but where t

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2022-12-03 18:30:07

hq reads HTML and converts it into a JSON object based on a series of CSS selectors. The selectors are expressed in a similar way to JSON, but where the values are CSS selectors. For example:

This will select all .athing elements, and it will create an array (| [{...}]) of objects for each element selected. Then for each element it will select the text of the titleline > a element, and the href attribute (| @(href)).

This selects each .athing element, extracts the URL from the href attribute as well as the title. It then selects the sibling .athing element, and extracts the user and post time from that: