🔎 wwwgrep – A Command-Line Tool for Web Scraping & Searching

wwwgrep is a lightweight command-line tool that fetches and searches content directly from web pages using regular expressions. It allows you to extract, filter, and analyze online data efficiently, making it a powerful tool for developers, researchers, and automation tasks.

✨ Features:

• Fetches web page content via HTTP(S)
• Supports flexible regex-based searching and filtering
• Outputs structured results for easy parsing
• Simple, fast, and dependency-free

Examples

wwwgrep https://dsheiko.com "Puppetry 3"

This example will return a list of all the pages that contain the given keyword.

Usage

wwwgrep <url> <keyword>

where:

base URL (e.g. https://dsheiko.com) keyword to look for (e.g. Puppetry)

Install

Install using npm - we recommend a global install:

npm install -g wwwgrep

NOTE: If you install under sudo, do not forget about access permissions:

sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(npm config get prefix)/{lib/node_modules,bin,share}

See details at http://npm.github.io/installation-setup-docs/installing/a-note-on-permissions.html