---
name: "nokogiri"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ruby-nokogiri"
version: "1.18.2+dfsg-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nokogiri"
---

# nokogiri(1)

an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser

## NAME

nokogiri - an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser

## DESCRIPTION

Nokogiri (鋸) is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser. Among Nokogiri’s many features is the ability to search documents via XPath or CSS3 selectors. The **nokogiri** command parses a document, and launches an interactive ruby session ([**irb**(1)](/irb/1.md)), allowing one to analysing the result interactively.

## SYNOPSYS

**nokogiri** \<*uri*\|*path*\> \[*options*\]

## OPTIONS

- **--type** \[*TYPE*\]

  Set the type of the document to be parsed

- **-E**, **--encoding** *encoding*

  Set the encoding of the document

- **-e** *command*

  Specifies script from command-line

- **--rng** \<*uri*\|*path*\>

  Validate using this rng file

- **-?**, **--help**

  Show a message very similar to this man page

- **-v**, **--version**

  Show the version of the program

## EXAMPLES

nokogiri http://www.ruby-lang.org/

nokogiri ./public/index.html

curl -s http://nokogiri.org \| nokogiri -e'p `$_`.css("h1").length'