Scrapex is a simple web scraping framework. Built on top of requests and lxml, supports Python 2 and Python 3.

Installation

To install stable version

pip install scrapex

To install development version

pip install https://github.com/cungnv/scrapex/archive/master.zip

Quick start

>>> from scrapex import Scraper
>>> s = Scraper(use_cache = True)
>>> doc = s.load('https://github.com/search?q=scraping')
>>>
>>> print(doc.extract("//h3[contains(text(),'results')]").strip())
59,256 repository results
>>>
>>> listings = doc.query("//ul[@class='repo-list']/li")
>>> print('number of listings on first page:', len(listings) )
number of listings on first page: 10
>>>
>>> for listing in listings[0:3]:
...     print('repo name: ',listing.extract(".//div[contains(@class,'text-normal')]/a"))
...
repo name:  scrapinghub/portia
repo name:  scrapy/scrapy
repo name:  REMitchell/python-scraping
>>>

Documentation available at scrapex.readthedocs.io.

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2020 Cung Nguyen

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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