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Python package for simply retrieving information about a specific website.

Project description

The wsinfo library

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wsinfo (short for website information) is a Python package for getting some useful information about some website, without the need to write some complicated hackish Python code.

Requirements

The package is compatible with both Python 2 and 3, so everything you need is a recent Python installation.

Installation

The wsinfo library is available on PyPI, so you can install it using pip:

pip install wsinfo

Usage

The usage of the wsinfo library is as easy as:

>>> import wsinfo
>>> w = wsinfo.Info("https://github.com")
>>> w.ip
'192.30.253.112'
>>> w.http_status_code
200
>>> w.title
'How people build software · GitHub'
>>> w.content
'<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n[...]\n</html>'

Documentation

The latest documentation is always available here: https://wsinfo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Tested Platforms and Python Versions

The code was tested on all major platforms using a wide range of Python versions.

If you experience some issues, feel free to contact me or open an issue on GitHub.

Changes

1.3.0

  • Added properties: content_type, http_header_dict and server_os

  • Correct handling of HTTP Errors (retrieve error page)

  • Documentation updates

  • Code cleanup

  • Minor fixes and improvements

1.2.0

1.1.0

  • Added function to list a websites heading structure

  • Documentation improvements

  • Code formatting

  • Minor improvements

  • Added/extended project infrastructure:

    • GitHub

    • PyPI

    • TravisCI

    • Landscape

1.0.0

  • Initial release

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