a library for scraping things
Project description
=========
scrapelib
=========
scrapelib is a library for making requests to websites, particularly those
that may be less-than-reliable.
scrapelib originated as part of the `Open States <http://openstates.org/`_
project to scrape the websites of all 50 state legislatures and as a result
was therefore designed with features desirable when dealing with sites that
have intermittent errors or require rate-limiting.
As of version 0.7 scrapelib has been retooled to take advantage of the superb
`requests <http://python-requests.org>`_ library.
Advantages of using scrapelib over alternatives like httplib2 simply using
requests as-is:
* All of the power of the suberb `requests <http://python-requests.org>`_ library.
* HTTP(S) and FTP requests via an identical API
* support for simple caching with pluggable cache backends
* request throtting
* configurable retries for non-permanent site failures
* optional robots.txt compliance
scrapelib is a project of Sunlight Labs (c) 2012.
All code is released under a BSD-style license, see LICENSE for details.
Written by James Turk <jturk@sunlightfoundation.com>
Contributors:
* Michael Stephens - initial urllib2/httplib2 version
* Joe Germuska - fix for IPython embedding
* Alex Chiang - fix to test suite
Requirements
============
* python >= 2.6 (experimental support for Python 3.2)
* requests
Installation
============
scrapelib is available on PyPI and can be installed via ``pip install scrapelib``
PyPI package: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/scrapelib
Source: http://github.com/sunlightlabs/scrapelib
Documentation: http://scrapelib.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Example Usage
=============
::
import scrapelib
s = scrapelib.Scraper(requests_per_minute=10, allow_cookies=True,
follow_robots=True)
# Grab Google front page
s.urlopen('http://google.com')
# Will raise RobotExclusionError
s.urlopen('http://google.com/search')
# Will be throttled to 10 HTTP requests per minute
while True:
s.urlopen('http://example.com')
scrapelib
=========
scrapelib is a library for making requests to websites, particularly those
that may be less-than-reliable.
scrapelib originated as part of the `Open States <http://openstates.org/`_
project to scrape the websites of all 50 state legislatures and as a result
was therefore designed with features desirable when dealing with sites that
have intermittent errors or require rate-limiting.
As of version 0.7 scrapelib has been retooled to take advantage of the superb
`requests <http://python-requests.org>`_ library.
Advantages of using scrapelib over alternatives like httplib2 simply using
requests as-is:
* All of the power of the suberb `requests <http://python-requests.org>`_ library.
* HTTP(S) and FTP requests via an identical API
* support for simple caching with pluggable cache backends
* request throtting
* configurable retries for non-permanent site failures
* optional robots.txt compliance
scrapelib is a project of Sunlight Labs (c) 2012.
All code is released under a BSD-style license, see LICENSE for details.
Written by James Turk <jturk@sunlightfoundation.com>
Contributors:
* Michael Stephens - initial urllib2/httplib2 version
* Joe Germuska - fix for IPython embedding
* Alex Chiang - fix to test suite
Requirements
============
* python >= 2.6 (experimental support for Python 3.2)
* requests
Installation
============
scrapelib is available on PyPI and can be installed via ``pip install scrapelib``
PyPI package: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/scrapelib
Source: http://github.com/sunlightlabs/scrapelib
Documentation: http://scrapelib.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Example Usage
=============
::
import scrapelib
s = scrapelib.Scraper(requests_per_minute=10, allow_cookies=True,
follow_robots=True)
# Grab Google front page
s.urlopen('http://google.com')
# Will raise RobotExclusionError
s.urlopen('http://google.com/search')
# Will be throttled to 10 HTTP requests per minute
while True:
s.urlopen('http://example.com')
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