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Include tools useful for processing HTML
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Along with shameless plug of my project clixpath
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# curlfire
Run curl with the current [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/) cookies.
Run curl with the current [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/) cookies.
This is useful for interacting with logged in websites from the shell, without having to manually deal with the login process.

The executable `cookiefire` included in this package can be used to extract the cookies from Firefox.
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[Prior to Firefox 57](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/frequently-asked-questions-firefox-addon), the [remote control extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remote-control/) could be used to interact with the page currently viewed in Firefox from the shell (including outputting the current [document object model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model) as HTML).

# Similar projects (and shameless advertising)
Users of this project might also be interested in:

* [clixpath](https://github.com/talwrii/clixpath) (by author) - an open-source tool for extracting information out of HTML documents in machine-readable JSON using [Xpath](https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116/).
* [PhantomJs](https://phantomjs.org/) - a scriptable command-line only browser than can be used to [render the document object model in Javascript based-websites](https://stackoverflow.com/a/9978162) and output more easily processed HTML.

# Copyright
This code is distributed under [an MIT license](LICENSE).
It contains code adapted from a code snippet in the aforementioned Stack Exchange answer which is also distributed under [an MIT license](SNIPPET-LICENSE) as [stipulated by the Stack Exchange terms and conditions](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-license-the-mit-this-time-with-attribution-required).

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