spatula 0.8.0

A modern Python library for writing maintainable web scrapers.

Overview

spatula is a modern Python library for writing maintainable web scrapers.

Source: https://github.com/jamesturk/spatula

Documentation: https://jamesturk.github.io/spatula/

Issues: https://github.com/jamesturk/spatula/issues

Features

• Page-oriented design: Encourages writing understandable & maintainable scrapers.
• Not Just HTML: Provides built in handlers for common data formats including CSV, JSON, XML, PDF, and Excel. Or write your own.
• Fast HTML parsing: Uses lxml.html for fast, consistent, and reliable parsing of HTML.
• Flexible Data Model Support: Compatible with dataclasses, attrs, pydantic, or bring your own data model classes for storing & validating your scraped data.
• CLI Tools: Offers several CLI utilities that can help streamline development & testing cycle.
• Fully Typed: Makes full use of Python 3 type annotations.

Installation

spatula is on PyPI, and can be installed via any standard package management tool:

poetry add spatula

or:

pip install spatula