Web scraping API for Finnish websites


Keywords
web, scraping, finnish, nlp, scrapy
License
Other
Install
pip install finscraper==0.2.5

Documentation

finscraper

Spiders Documentation

finscraper cover

The library provides an easy-to-use API for fetching data from various Finnish websites:

Website Type Spider API class
Ilta-Sanomat News article ISArticle
Iltalehti News article ILArticle
YLE Uutiset News article YLEArticle
Suomi24 Discussion thread Suomi24Page
Muusikoiden.net Discussion thread MNetPage
Vauva Discussion thread VauvaPage
Oikotie Asunnot Apartment ad OikotieApartment
Tori Item deal ToriDeal

Documentation is available at https://finscraper.readthedocs.io and simple online demo here.

Installation

pip install finscraper

Quickstart

Fetch 10 news articles as a pandas DataFrame from Ilta-Sanomat:

from finscraper.spiders import ISArticle

spider = ISArticle().scrape(10)

articles = spider.get()

The API is similar for all the spiders:

Finscraper in action

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.


Jesse Myrberg (jesse.myrberg@gmail.com)