Rubbernecker
A web scraping engine built with Python and SeleniumBase that crawls web pages, stores raw HTML, and parses structured data. Supports configurable page actions and depth-based crawling.
Installation
Prerequisites
Python 3.12+
Google Chrome
macOS:
brew install --cask google-chrome
Fedora/RHEL (including WSL 2):
sudo dnf install -y fedora-workstation-repositories
sudo dnf config-manager setopt google-chrome.enabled=1
sudo dnf install -y google-chrome-stable
Ubuntu/Debian:
wget -q -O - https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y google-chrome-stable
Setup
make install
Or manually:
uv sync
Quick Start
See QUICKSTART.md for a step-by-step tutorial.
Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
crawl |
Scrape websites and save raw HTML to Avro files |
fetch |
Download assets from a list of URLs |
parse |
Extract structured data from crawled HTML |
sitemap |
Discover page URLs from sitemaps or robots.txt |
Documentation
- Action Scripts — Automate page interactions during crawls
- Output Formats — Avro schemas for all command outputs
- Development — Testing, linting, and build commands
License
Apache-2.0
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