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Dev tools · February 28, 2016

Wring – CLI web scraping with CSS Sel, JS, XPath, written in PureScript

Extract content from webpages using CSS Selectors, XPath, and JS expressions - ozanvos/wring

Wring – CLI web scraping with CSS Sel, JS, XPath, written in PureScript launched on February 28, 2016 with 11 votes, #2,021 of 4,386 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

In plain words

Wring is a command-line tool written in PureScript for extracting content from webpages. It supports multiple selection methods including CSS selectors, XPath expressions, and JavaScript expressions, making it flexible for various data extraction tasks. The tool is designed for developers who need to scrape web content programmatically from the command line.

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