NAME

html2skim

SYNOPSIS

html2skim OPTIONS SKIM_DB_FILE URL [CSS_SELECTOR]

DESCRIPTION

html2skim provides a way to treat a webpage containing links as a feed storing the results in a skimmer database. A SKIM_DB_FILE will be created if it does not already exist. Feed channel information can be specified via html2skim options. The URL should be for an HTML page that html2skim will scrape for links. An optional CSS_SELECTOR can be included to filter a specific section of the HTML document for links. If none is provided then the selector a[href] will be used.

OPTIONS

-help

display help

-version

display version info

-license

display license

-title

this is the channel title to use for the links scraped in the page

-description

this is the channel description to use for links scraped in the page

-link

this is the link to associated with the channel. You’d set this if you were going to take the scaped links and turn them into RSS 2.0 documents.

EXAMPLE

This is an example of scaping a web page identified as “https://example.edu/” filter the links found in the “.college-news” element.

html2skim  \
     myfeeds.skim \
     https://example.edu/ \
     '.college-news > a[href]'