README.md

Scrapman

Scrapman is a Python script to crawl a list of elements from a specified URL with a specified selector.

Getting started

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/anned20/scrapman.git

Install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

You are now ready to use Scrapman:

python scrapman.py --help

You should see something like:

Usage: scrapman.py [OPTIONS]

Options:
--debug / --no-debug           Debug mode
--url TEXT                     URL to crawl
--selector TEXT                Selector for the elements
--output-type [dict|json|csv]
--output-file TEXT             File to output the result into. Use "-" for
stdout
--help                         Show this message and exit.

Testing

To run the tests you use pytest

Execute them with pytest in the project directory

Built with

• requests - Getting the webpage
• click - Parsing command line options
• BeautifulSoup - Parsing the HTML of the webpage

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details