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spider-pig Searches for Nodes that match a CSS Selector

January 18, 2018

spider-pig is a command line utility that takes a URL and retrieves all the local URL links on the page. It can also search for a CSS selector on each local URL to measure the impact of a CSS change.

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Get a list of local URL links from a root URL. Works with JavaScript generated content.

<a href="test.html">Test</a><!-- match -->
<a href="test2.html">Test</a><!-- match -->
<a href="test2.html">Duplicate Test</a><!-- do not match -->
<a href="root.html">URL to self</a><!-- match -->
<a href="mailto:test@example.com">Email link</a><!-- do not match -->
<a href="http://www.google.com/">External</a><!-- do not match -->

Can also act as a live-DOM CSS search across multiple files (find all the templates that are using the CSS selector I want to change). If I’m worried about changing code in a CSS selector, I’ll use this tool to search for instances of the selector across my project.

spider-pig on the command line

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8 Comments
  1. Todd Morey

    Kind of missed the point of the post because I was too busy flippin' css on and off on your site.

  2. Sameera

    spider pig!!

  3. Zach Leatherman

    bells and whistles: pick one!

  4. Zach Leatherman

    only spiderpig knows what spiderpig does 🏆

  5. fLaMEd

    @zachleat wow that’s super cool. Often wondered how to easily figure out what’s used where or not at all!

  6. CJ Dunn

    @zachleat thanks for posting this! Just yesterday I was wondering how to do something like this for my site

  7. nrk 9819

    @zachleat this is super cool. Wish I saw this earlier lol

  8. Zach Leatherman :verify:

    @cjtype I hope it’s useful!

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