Site Scraping Framework
Project description
Grab is a python site scraping framework. Grab provides powerful interface to two libraries: lxml and pycurl. There are two ways how to use Grab: 1) Use Grab to configure network requests and to process fetched documents. In this way you should manually control flow of you program. 2) Use Grab::Spider to buld asynchronous site scrapers. This is how scrapy works.
Example of Grab usage:
from grab import Grab
g = Grab()
g.go('https://github.com/login')
g.set_input('login', 'lorien')
g.set_input('password', '***')
g.submit()
for elem in g.doc.select('//ul[@id="repo_listing"]/li/a'):
print '%s: %s' % (elem.text(), elem.attr('href'))
Example of Grab::Spider usage:
from grab.spider import Spider, Task
import logging
class ExampleSpider(Spider):
def task_generator(self):
for lang in ('python', 'ruby', 'perl'):
url = 'https://www.google.com/search?q=%s' % lang
yield Task('search', url=url)
def task_search(self, grab, task):
print grab.doc.select('//div[@class="s"]//cite').text()
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
bot = ExampleSpider()
bot.run()
Installation
Pip is recommended way to install Grab and its dependencies:
$ pip install lxml $ pip install pycurl $ pip install grab
Documentation
Russian docs: http://docs.grablib.org English docs in progress.
Discussion group (Russian or English): http://groups.google.com/group/python-grab/
Contribution
If you found a bug or if you want new feature please create new issue on github:
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