scrapeMM 0.6.4

Multimodal scraper for social media, internet archives, and the open web.

scrapeMM: Multimodal Web Retrieval

Simple web scraper to asynchronously retrieve webpages and access social media contents, fetching text along with media, i.e., images and videos.

This library aims to help developers and researchers to easily access multimodal data from the web and use it for LLM processing.

Setup

• If you want to download videos: Then, the installation of ffmpeg is highly recommended. In Conda, you can install it with conda install -c conda-forge ffmpeg.
• If you want to scrape Perma.cc archive records or Facebook photos, you'll need to install playwright with pip install playwright and running playwright install.

Configure

To set the API secrets, run

from scrapemm import configure_secrets
configure_secrets()

To set the Firecrawl URL, run

from scrapemm import update_config
update_config(firecrawl_url="your_url")

Usage

from scrapemm import retrieve
import asyncio

if __name__ == "__main__":
    url = "https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gauze-originate-from-gaza/"
    result = asyncio.run(retrieve(url))
    if result.errors:
        print(result.errors)
    else:
        print(result.content)

scrapeMM will ask you for the API secrets needed for the integrations. You may skip them if you don't need them.

You will also be prompted to choose a password that is used to secure the secrets in an encrypted file.

How it works

Input:                                  Output:
URL (string)   -->   retrieve()   -->   MultimodalSequence

The MultimodalSequence is a sequence of Markdown-formatted text and media provided by the ezMM library.

Web scraping is done with Firecrawl and Decodo.

Supported Platforms

Social Media

• ✅ X/Twitter
• ✅ Telegram
• ✅ Bluesky
• ✅ TikTok
• ✅ YouTube
• (✅️) Instagram: works for most content
• ✅️ Facebook
• ❌ Threads: TBD
• ❌ Reddit: TBD

Archiving Services

• ✅ Perma.cc
• (✅) Archive.today: Sometimes ending up in TimeoutErrors, generally pretty slow
• ✅ MediaVault (mvau.lt)
• ❌ Wayback Machine, Internet Archive (web.archive.org)
• ❌ AwesomeScreenshot.com
• ❌ Ghost Archive (ghostarchive.org)