script-scraper: Intuitive queries for nested scraping tasks
What is it?
script-scraper is a Python package that provides a simple and intuitive interface, designed to make the web scraping procedure fast and modifiable. It aims to help developers in writing simple and interpretable bots. script-scraper is built on top of the Scrapy framework, providing the user with a familiar interface.
Where to get it
The source code is currently hosted on GitHub at: https://github.com/vlad-yeghiazaryan/script-scraper
You can also install it with pip, by running:
pip install script-scraper-alphaWorking example
from scriptScraper.extractors import ScriptRunner
request = {
"urls": ["https://quotes.toscrape.com"],
"extract_rules": {
"quotes": {
"selector": ".quote",
"type": "list",
"output": {
"text": ".text",
"author": ".author",
"tags": {
"selector": ".tag",
"type": "list"
},
"about": {
"selector": "span a",
"type": "page",
"follow": "href",
"output": {
"author_name": ".author-title",
"author_birth_date": ".author-born-date",
"author_birth_location": ".author-born-location",
"author_description": ".author-description"
}
}
}
},
"next_page": ".next a"
}
}
crawler = ScriptRunner(delay=1, log=False, output='data.json')
scraped_data = crawler.scrape(request)
