aioscrape 0.0.2

Async scraping library

A scraping library on top of aiohttp and parsechain. Note that this is alpha software.

Installation

pip install aioscrape

Usage

from aioscrape import run, fetch, settings
from aioscrape.middleware import last_fetch, make_filecache
from aioscrape.utils import SOME_HEADERS # To not look like a bot

from urllib.parse import urljoin
from parsechain import C
from funcy import lcat, lconcat


def main():
    # Settings are scoped and can be redefined later with another "with"
    cache = make_filecache('.fcache')
    with settings(headers=SOME_HEADERS, middleware=[cache, last_fetch]):
        print(run(scrape_all()))


async def scrape_all():
    # All the settings in scope like headers and middleware are applied to fetch()
    start_page = await fetch(START_URL)

    # AioScrape integrates with parsechain to make extracting a breeze
    urls = start_page.css('.pagingLinks a').attrs('href')
    list_urls = [urljoin(start_page.url, page_url) for page_url in urls]

    # Using asyncio.wait() and friends to run requests in parallel
    list_pages = [start_page] + await wait_all(map(fetch, list_urls))

    # Scrape articles
    result = lcat(await wait_all(map(scrape_articles, list_pages)))
    write_to_csv('export.csv', result)


async def scrape_articles(list_page):
    urls = list_page.css('#headlines .titleLink').attrs('href')
    abs_urls = [urljoin(list_page.url, url) for url in urls]
    return await wait_all(map(scrape_article, abs_urls))


async def scrape_article(url):
    resp = await fetch(url)
    return resp.root.multi({
        'url': C.const(resp.url),
        'title': C.microdata('headline').first,
        'date': C.microdata('datePublished').first,
        'text': C.microdata('articleBody').first,
        'contacts': C.css('.sidebars .contact p')
                     .map(C.inner_html + html_to_text) + lconcat + ''.join,
    })


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

TODO

• Response.follow()

• non-GET requests

• work with forms