mgdm/htmlq

htmlq is a command-line utility for extracting and manipulating HTML content using CSS selectors. It provides capabilities for selecting nodes, rewriting relative URLs to absolute ones, and formatting output, while supporting text-only modes and node removal. The tool is implemented in Rust and includes integration tests to verify its core selection and modification behaviors.

This change introduces the initial version of htmlq, a command-line tool for extracting content from HTML using CSS selectors. The release includes the core application logic, comprehensive documentation in README.md with installation instructions for Cargo, Homebrew, Scoop, and FreeBSD, and an MIT license. Additionally, it adds Nix flake support (flake.nix and flake.lock) to facilitate building and development within the Nix ecosystem.

(repo-wide) · high confidence

The tool now supports rewriting relative URLs in \<a\>, \<link\>, and \<area\> tags to absolute URLs using a provided base URL or by detecting a \<base\> tag in the HTML. A new --pretty flag reformats output HTML for readability, and the CLI has been refactored to use a derive-based configuration struct with explicit options for input/output paths, text-only mode, whitespace handling, and node removal.

src · high confidence

Added integration tests for the htmlq command-line tool to verify core selection and modification behaviors, including finding elements by class or ID and removing specific child nodes.

tests · high confidence

The project has been updated to the Rust 2024 edition and upgraded to version 0.5.0. The command-line interface now uses clap 4 with derive-based API support, replacing the previous version 2 dependency. Additionally, the HTML parsing library has been migrated from kuchiki to kuchikiki 0.8, and several other dependencies such as html5ever, url, and lazy\_static have been added or updated to ensure compatibility with the new edition and framework.

(dependencies) · high confidence

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• CAI 57 → 51 (-5.7)
• Rubric changed (rubric-2026.09.9 → rubric-2026.09.17) — scores are not directly comparable.

• Code Health 100 → 100 (+0.0)
• Architecture 69 → 69 (+0.0)
• Maturity 53 → 53 (+0.0)
• Readiness 47 → 36 (-10.9)
• Security 69 → 75 (+6.1)

• Off-boarding risk: anonymized user #1

• Dependency hygiene PARTLY measured — Cargo dependencies read, dependency currency not (crates.io unreachable)
• Off-boarding risk: anonymized user #1

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

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