tsingspider 1.4.4

A spider library of several data sources

DataSpider

A spider framework with several internal spiders.

Install

pip install --upgrade tsingspider

Features

• Light-weight: do not have to start browser simulator, won't cost lots of resources
  • But not all the website can download in this way
• Lazy: won't download anything before you actually use the data
• Useful Utilities
  • Support HLS download
  • Support cookies from firefox
  • Support Proxies
  • Generate magnet link from torrent data

Write Your Own Spider

To define a resource, you can use LazySoup or LazyContent. LazyContent is for binary data, basically all kinds of the data are binary. LazySoup is for the XML format resource, widely be used for downloading web-page.

For example:

from tsing_spider.util import LazySoup, LazyContent

class YourOwnSpider(LazySoup):
    def __init__(self, url:str):
        LazySoup.__init__(self, url)

    @property
    def some_info(self) -> str:
        """
        Extract information from self.soup
        the data will be downloaded at the first time of using it
        """
        pass