crawlio

Asynchronous web crawling and scraping with Python for minimalists

Warning: this project is under active development and not yet production-ready!

Features

• Crawling: download an entire website in just a few seconds
• Scraping: Customizable XPath & CSS data selectors (using parsel)
• Zero-configuration: get up and running with ~5 LoC
• Interfaces: Web UI + JSON API powered by FastAPI & VueJS

Built with asyncio, aiohttp and 🍺

Setup

pip install crawlio

Usage

import asyncio
from crawlio import Crawler, Selector

bot = Crawler(
    url='https://quotes.toscrape.com/',
    selectors=[
        Selector('links', '//a/@href'),
        Selector('heading', type='xpath', query='//h3//text()', process=lambda items: ' '.join(items))
    ]
)
output = asyncio.run(bot.run())
for item in output["data"]:
    print(item)

License

Copyright (C) 2021 Maximilian Wolf

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.