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ScraperLib

Python Ray License


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✨ Features

  • Parallel Downloads: Uses Ray to download multiple files simultaneously, maximizing bandwidth and efficiency.
  • 403 Avoidance: Rotates user-agents, sets referer headers, and uses session management to avoid being blocked.
  • Incremental Mode: Optionally skip files already downloaded.
  • Robust State Management: Tracks completed, failed, and skipped downloads with atomic file operations.
  • Progress Visualization: Uses tqdm for beautiful progress bars.
  • Comprehensive Reporting: Generates JSON reports and visualizations (if matplotlib is installed) of download delays and errors.
  • Colorful Console Output: Uses colorama for clear, color-coded logs.
  • Dual Logging: Terminal shows only relevant events (e.g., [DONE] for successful downloads), while the log file contains all attempts, retries, and errors for full traceability.
  • Highly Configurable CLI: All parameters (parallelism, chunk size, retry/backoff, output dirs, etc.) can be set via command line.

📦 Installation

Requires Python 3.12+.

  1. Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/rmonteiro-pereira/Scraper-Lib.git
    cd Scraper-Lib
    
  2. Install dependencies — the project uses uv and ships a committed uv.lock, so this reproduces the exact resolved set:

    uv sync
    

    Or with pip, installing the package itself in editable mode:

    pip install -e .
    

    Main dependencies:

    • ray
    • requests
    • tqdm
    • colorama
    • beautifulsoup4
    • matplotlib
    • numpy
    • portalocker

🚀 Usage

CLI

python -m scraper_lib.cli --url <URL> --patterns .csv .zip --dir data --max-files 10

Main CLI options:

  • --url: Base URL to scrape for files.
  • --patterns: List of file patterns to match (e.g. .csv .zip).
  • --dir: Download directory.
  • --incremental: Enable incremental download state.
  • --max-files: Limit number of files to download.
  • --max-concurrent: Max parallel downloads.
  • --chunk-size: Chunk size for downloads (e.g. 1gb, 10mb, 8 bytes).
  • --initial-delay: Initial delay between retries (seconds).
  • --max-delay: Maximum delay between retries (seconds).
  • --max-retries: Maximum number of download retries.
  • --state-file: Path for download state file.
  • --log-file: Path for main log file.
  • --report-prefix: Prefix for report files.
  • --headers: Path to JSON file with custom headers.
  • --user-agents: Path to text file with custom user agents (one per line).
  • --disable-logging: Disable all logging for production pipelines.
  • --disable-terminal-logging: Disable terminal logging.
  • --dataset-name: Dataset name for banner.
  • --disable-progress-bar: Disable tqdm progress bar.
  • --output-dir: Directory for report PNGs and JSON.
  • --max-old-logs: Max old log files to keep (default: 25, None disables rotation).
  • --max-old-runs: Max old report/png runs to keep (default: 25, None disables rotation).

See all options with:

python -m scraper_lib --help

Programmatic Usage

from ScraperLib import ScraperLib

scraper = ScraperLib(
    base_url: str = "https://example.com/data",
    file_patterns: List[str] = [".csv", ".parquet", ".zip"],
    download_dir: str = "data",
    incremental: bool = True,
    max_files: Optional[int] = 2,
    max_concurrent: Optional[int] = 16,
    chunk_size: Union[str, int] = "10mb",
    initial_delay: float = 1.0,
    max_delay: float = 60.0,
    max_retries: int = 5,
    dataset_name: Optional[str] = "MY DATASET"
)
scraper.run()

🛡️ Anti-Blocking Protocols

  • User-Agent Rotation: Randomizes user-agent strings on each request and after 403 errors.
  • Referer Header: Sets a realistic referer to mimic browser behavior.
  • Session Management: Uses a new HTTP session for each attempt.
  • Exponential Backoff: Waits longer between retries to avoid rate-limiting.

📊 Reporting

After execution, a summary is printed to the console and a detailed report is saved as a JSON file. If matplotlib is installed, visualizations of download delays are also generated.


🧪 Testing

To run all tests:

pytest tests

📝 Project Structure

.
├── src/
│   ├── __init__.py             # Makes src a package
│   ├── scraper_lib.py          # Main library
│   ├── DownloadState.py        # Download state management
│   ├── CustomLogger.py         # Custom logger
├── example.py                  # Example usage (runnable from root)
├── pyproject.toml              # Project metadata and dependencies
├── uv.lock                     # Locked, reproducible dependency set
├── output/
│   ├── pngs/                   # Download delay analysis PNGs
│   └── reports/                # Download reports (JSON)
├── data/                       # Downloaded files
├── logs/                       # Log files
├── state/                      # Download state (auto-generated)
├── tests/                      # Unit tests

🤝 Contributing

Pull requests and suggestions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a PR.


📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.


📬 Contact

Questions or suggestions? Open an issue or contact rmonteiropereira1@gmail.com.


Happy data hunting with ScraperLib! 🚀

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