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a webpage scraping tool

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# scrape

##
a web scraping tool

## Installation
* `pip install scrape`

## Usage
usage: scrape [-h] [-f [FILTER [FILTER ...]]] [-c [CRAWL [CRAWL ...]]] [-ca]
[-l LIMIT] [-t] [-vb] [-v]
[urls [urls ...]]

a web scraping tool

positional arguments:
urls urls to scrape

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-f [FILTER [FILTER ...]], --filter [FILTER [FILTER ...]]
filter lines by keywords, text only
-c [CRAWL [CRAWL ...]], --crawl [CRAWL [CRAWL ...]]
enter keywords to crawl links
-ca, --crawl-all crawl all links
-l LIMIT, --limit LIMIT
crawl page limit
-t, --text write to text instead of pdf
-vb, --verbose show pdfkit messages
-v, --version display current version

## Author
* Hunter Hammond (huntrar@gmail.com)

## Notes
* Unless specified using the --text flag, all webpages are saved as pdf files using pdfkit.

* The --filter flag may be used in conjunction with --text to only save lines matching one or more keywords provided

* Subsequent links may be followed by entering --crawl-all or --crawl. --crawl accepts a list of substrings to control which URL's to crawl, while --crawl-all will attempt to follow links indefinitely.

* There is no limit to the number of pages to be crawled unless one is set using the --limit flag, thus to cancel crawling and begin processing simply press Ctrl-C.



News
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0.0.9
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- pdfkit now ignores load errors and writes as many pages as possible

0.0.8
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- better implementation of crawler, can now scrape entire websites
- added OrderedSet class to utils.py

0.0.7
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- changed --keywords to --filter and positional arg url to urls

0.0.6
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- use --keywords flag for filtering text
- can pass multiple links now
- will not write empty files anymore

0.0.5
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- added --verbose argument for use with pdfkit
- improved output file name processing

0.0.4
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- accepts 0 or 1 url's, allowing a call with just --version

0.0.3
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- Moved utils.py to scrape/

0.0.2
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- First entry

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