scrapy-seleniumbase-cdp 0.0.4

Scrapy downloader middleware that uses SeleniumBase's pure CDP mode to make requests.

scrapy-seleniumbase-cdp

Scrapy downloader middleware that uses SeleniumBase's pure CDP mode to make requests, allowing to bypass most anti-bot protections (e.g. CloudFlare).

Using Selenium's pure CDP mode also makes the middle more platform independent as no WebDriver is required.

🚧 Work in progress, see working example here. 🚧

Installation

pip install scrapy-seleniumbase-cdp

Configuration

1. Add the SeleniumBaseAsyncCDPMiddleware to the downloader middlewares:

   DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
       'scrapy_seleniumbase_cdp.SeleniumBaseAsyncCDPMiddleware': 800
   }
   

2. If needed, Driver configuration can be provided:

   SELENIUMBASE_DRIVER_KWARGS = {
       # …
   }
   

Usage

Use the scrapy_seleniumbase_cdp.SeleniumBaseRequest instead of the scrapy built-in Request like below:

from scrapy_seleniumbase_cdp import SeleniumBaseRequest

yield SeleniumBaseRequest(url=url, callback=self.parse_result)

The request will be handled by SeleniumBase, and the request will have an additional meta key, named driver containing the SeleniumBase driver with the request processed.

def parse_result(self, response):
    print(response.request.meta['driver'].title)

For more information about the available driver methods and attributes, refer to the selenium python documentation (all vanilla selenium driver methods are available) and seleniumbase documentation (look for "driver" specific methods, located at the end of the page).

The selector response attribute work as usual (but contains the HTML processed by the selenium driver).

def parse_result(self, response):
    print(response.selector.xpath('//title/@text'))

Additional arguments

The scrapy_selenium.SeleniumBaseRequest accept 5 additional arguments:

wait_time / wait_until

When used, SeleniumBase will wait for the element to be selectable before returning the response to the spider.

yield SeleniumBaseRequest(
    url=url,
    callback=self.parse_result,
    wait_time=10,
    wait_until='h1.some-class'))

screenshot

When used, SeleniumBase will take a screenshot of the page and the binary data will be added to the response meta:

yield SeleniumBaseRequest(url=url, callback=self.parse_result, screenshot=True)


def parse_result(self, response):
    # …
    with open('image.png', 'wb') as image_file:
        image_file.write(response.meta['screenshot'])

You can also specify additional configuration options:

yield SeleniumBaseRequest(…, screenshot={'format': 'jpg', 'full_page': False})

Or provide a path to automatically save the screenshot (in this case, the image data is not added to the response meta):

yield SeleniumBaseRequest(…, screenshot={'path': 'output/image.png'})

Available configuration keys:

• path: File path where screenshot will be saved. Use auto for SeleniumBase default path. Leave empty to return data in response meta.
• format: Image format, defaults to png, jpg also available.
• full_page: Capture full page or just viewport, defaults to True.

script

Not implemented

When used, webdriver will execute custom JavaScript code.

yield SeleniumBaseRequest(
    url=url,
    callback=self.parse_result,
    script='window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);')

driver_methods

Not implemented

When used, seleniumbase webdriver will execute methods, provided as strings in a list, before returning page's HTML.

def start_requests(self):
    for url in self.start_urls:
        yield SeleniumRequest(
            url=url,
            driver_methods=['''.find_element("xpath","some_xpath").click()''']))

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. It is a fork of Quartz-Core/scrapy-seleniumbase which was originally released under the WTFPL.