Jun 30, 2011 · To ease the common tasks associated with screen scraping, a python framework "Scrapy" exists. It will make html, xml parsing painless. It will make html, xml parsing painless. Share

Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.

Apr 5, 2016 · Oh - BTW: The kind of screen scraping: I want to scrape newspaper sites (i.e. fairly complex and big) for mentions of politicians etc. - That means I will need to scrape daily, incrementally and recursively - and I need to log the results into a database of sorts - which lead me to a bonus question: Everybody is talking about nonSQL DB.

Apr 17, 2017 · Request that page and scrape the field you wanted to. IMHO, page requests are way faster than screen scraping (case-to-case basis). But of course, you could always do screen scraping/browser simulation also (Mechanize, Splinter) and use headless browsers (PhantomJS, etc.) or the browser driver of the browser you want to use.

Python has good options to scrape the web. The best one with a framework is scrapy. It can be a little tricky for beginners, so here is a little help. 1. Install python above 3.5 (lower ones till 2.7 will work). 2. Create a environment in conda ( I did this). 3. …

Jul 11, 2010 · If so, then all you need to do is transform the results your crawler returns into django model records (I haven't used django in a long time but iirc it uses SQLAlchemy) and call the relevant methods to save those records into your database: there is nothing different about scrapy based code to any other python code (IE, if you can get the data ...

Jun 29, 2009 · BeautifulSoup is the standard Python screen scraping tool. Recently, however, I used the (incomplete at the moment) pyQuery, which is more or less a rewrite of jQuery into python, and found it to be very useful.

Apr 20, 2017 · Mechanize automatically follows robots.txt, but it can be disabled assuming you have permission, or you have thought the ethics through ..

Apr 12, 2011 · Odd that this question hasn't been answered, but Quartz Event Services is the modern way to do the mouse controlling, and the CGWindow API to do screen scraping. Both are C APIs, so from Python, you can either use PyObjC or ctypes to get to them. –

Jul 28, 2009 · answer is for Python, not NodeJS, this is how a plethora of companies are doing Virtual test users with Python running things (he could install PhantomJS without Node, but it's far easier to have npm available, especially if you'll be deploying it to a remote system)