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Grab

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What is Grab?

Grab is a python web scraping framework. Grab provides tons of helpful methods to scrape web sites and to process the scraped content:

  • Automatic cookies (session) support

  • HTTP and SOCKS proxy with and without authorization

  • Keep-Alive support

  • IDN support

  • Tools to work with web forms

  • Easy multipart file uploading

  • Flexible customization of HTTP requests

  • Automatic charset detection

  • Powerful API of extracting info from HTML documents with XPATH queries

  • Asynchronous API to make thousands of simultaneous queries. This part of library called Spider and it is too big to even list its features in this README.

  • Python 3 ready

Grab Example

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')))

Grab::Spider Example

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 -U grab

See details here http://docs.grablib.org/en/latest/usage/installation.html

Documentation and Help

Documentation: http://docs.grablib.org/en/latest/

English mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/grab-users/

Russian mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/python-grab/

Contribution

To report a bug please use github issue tracker: https://github.com/lorien/grab/issues

If you want to develop new feature in Grab please use issue tracker to describe what you want to do or contact me at lorien@lorien.name

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