soupstars 2.10.4

Declarative web parsers

Soup Stars

Soup Stars is a framework for building web parsers with Python. It is designed to make building, deploying, and scheduling web parsers easier by simplifying what you need to get started.

Quickstart

pip install soupstars

The client is also available as a docker image.

docker pull soupstars/client

Building a parser

Create a new parser using the soupstars command. The create command will use a template parser.

soupstars create -m myparser.py

Parsers are simple python modules.

cat myparser.py

Notice that the only set up required is the special parse decorator and a variable named url for the web page you want to parse.

from soupstars import parse

url = "https://corbettanalytics.com/"

@parse
def h1(soup):
    return soup.h1.text

You can test that the parser functions correctly.

soupstars run -m myparser.py

Use soupstars --help to see a full list of available commands.

More documentation is available here.

Development

Create a virtual environment with python3.6

virtualenv venv --python=python3.6

Install the package in development mode.

venv/bin/pip3 install --requirement requirements.txt
venv/bin/pip3 install --editable .

Run the tests.

venv/bin/pytest -v
venv/bin/flake soupstars examples

Releasing

New tags that pass on CI will automatically be pushed to PyPI and docker hub.