FLOSCRAPER

Some basic webscraper I use in many projects.

webscraper

Module to ease web efforts

Supports

• Cached web requests (Wrapper around requests)
• Bultin parsing/scraping (Wrapper around beautifulsoup)

Constructor parameters

• url: Default url, used if nothing else specified
• scheme: Default scheme for scrapping
• timeout
• cache_directory: Where to save cache files
• cache_time: How long is a cached resource vaild - in seconds (default: 7 minutes)
• cache_use_advanced
• auth_method: Authentication method (default: HTTPBasicAuth)
• auth_username: Authentication username. If set, enables authentication
• auth_password: Authentication password
• handle_redirect: Allow redirects (default: True)
• user_agent: User agent to use
• default_user_agents_browser: Browser to set in user agent (from default_user_agents dict)
• default_user_agents_os: Operating system to set in user agent (from default_user_agents dict)
• user_agents_browser: Browser to set in user agent (Overwrites default_user_agents_browser)
• user_agents_os: Operating system to set in user agent (Overwrites default_user_agents_os)
• html2text: HTML2text settings
• html_parser: What html parser to use (default: html.parser - built in)

Example

# Setup WebScraper with caching
web = WebScraper({
    'cache_directory': "cache",
    'cache_time': 5*60
})

# First call to git -> hit internet
web.get("https://github.com/")

# Second call to git (within 5 minutes of first) -> hit cache
web.get("https://github.com/")

Whitch results in the following output:

2016-01-07 19:22:00 DEBUG   [WebScraper._getCached] From inet https://github.com
2016-01-07 19:22:00 INFO    [requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool] Starting new HTTPS connection (1): github.com
2016-01-07 19:22:01 DEBUG   [requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 None
2016-01-07 19:22:01 DEBUG   [WebScraper._getCached] From cache https://github.com