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Description:
Parse HTML at the command-line

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: html scraper cli parsing web

Install: brew install pup

About:
Pup is a command-line tool for parsing HTML. It reads HTML from standard input or a file and allows users to extract specific elements using CSS selectors. Its main value is enabling quick data extraction and scraping tasks directly in the terminal without needing complex scripts.

Key Features:

CSS selector support
JSON output format
Streaming input processing
Attribute and text extraction

Use Cases:

Scraping data from web pages in shell scripts
Extracting specific elements from HTML for debugging
Converting HTML tables to JSON for data processing

Alternatives:

jq – jq is for JSON, while pup is specifically for HTML parsing
htmlq – Similar functionality, written in Rust vs Go
xmllint – More general XML tool, but can handle HTML with proper flags

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 14, 2024 10:37pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	e77d5c6a