html2json

A Rust port of cheerio-json-mapper.

Overview

• Input: HTML source (file path or stdin) + Extractor spec (JSON file)
• Output: JSON matching the structure defined in the spec

Installation

From crates.io

cargo install html2json --features cli

From source

cargo install --path . --features cli
# or from a git repository
cargo install --git https://github.com/qretaio/html2json --features cli

Using just

just install

Examples

# Extract from file
html2json examples/hn.html --spec examples/hn.json

# Extract from stdin (pipe from curl)
curl -s https://news.ycombinator.com/ | html2json --spec examples/hn.json

# Extract from stdin (pipe from cat)
cat examples/hn.html | html2json --spec examples/hn.json

# Check output matches expected JSON (useful for testing/CI)
html2json examples/hn.html --spec examples/hn.json --check expected.json

Options

• --spec, -s <FILE> - Path to JSON extractor spec file (required)
• --check, -c <FILE> - Compare output against expected JSON file. Exits with 0 if match, 1 if differ (with colored diff).

LICENSE

MIT