I'd use something like this script that you can put together yourself: #!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'nokogiri'; p Nokogiri::HTML(STDIN.read).css(ARGV[0]).te

I'd use something like this script that you can put together yourself: #!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'nokogiri'; p Nokogiri::HTML(STDIN.read).css(ARGV[0]).text Just save it to a file in your /usr/local/bin/hq and do chmod +x !$ Then you can do: curl -s "https://news.ycombinator.com/news"|hq "tr:first-child .storylink" It uses Nokogiri[0], which is much more battle tested and works with CSS and XPath selectors. [0] https://nokogiri.org/tutorials/parsing_an_html_xml_document.html#from-a-string https://nokogiri.org/tutorials/parsing_an_html_xml_document....