sudo apt intstall libxml2-utils
- go to firefox and go to the url you want to download something from.
url="https://www.mendeley.com/download-reference-manager/linux"
echo $url
html=$(wget -q -O - "$url")
- go to firefox, click on the link you want to inspect, right click on “inspect”
- in the attributes explorer, navigate to the
<a href="...">...</a> tag, right click and copy the “xpath” - use the following command to save it as a variable in terminal:
#xpath="<your xpath here>"
# example
xpath="/html/body/div[2]/section[1]/div[1]/a"
echo $xpath
- in the same terminal window
dl_url=$(echo $html | xmllint --html --xpath "string($xpath/@href)" - 2>/dev/null | xargs)
echo $dl_url
- Finally,
Full Example
url="https://www.mendeley.com/download-reference-manager/linux" && \
xpath="/html/body/div[2]/section[1]/div[1]/a" && \
html=$(wget -q -O - "$url") && \
dl_url=$(echo $html | xmllint --html --xpath "string($xpath/@href)" - 2>/dev/null | xargs) && \
wget "$dl_url" && \