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Geziyor is a blazing fast web crawling and web scraping framework. It can be used to crawl websites and extract structured data from them. Geziyor is useful for a wide range of purposes such as data mining, monitoring and automated testing.

Features:

  • JS Rendering
  • 5.000+ Requests/Sec
  • Caching (Memory/Disk/LevelDB)
  • Automatic Data Exporting (JSON, CSV, or custom)
  • Metrics (Prometheus, Expvar, or custom)
  • Limit Concurrency (Global/Per Domain)
  • Request Delays (Constant/Randomized)
  • Cookies, Middlewares, robots.txt
  • Automatic response decoding to UTF-8
  • Proxy management (Single, Round-Robin, Custom)

Colly is a popular web scraping library for the Go programming language. It's designed to be fast and easy to use, and it provides a simple and flexible API for traversing and extracting information from websites.

Colly supports:

  • Concurrent scraping with a simple API
  • Automatic handling of cookies and sessions
  • Automatic handling of redirects
  • Support for parsing HTML and XML
  • Support for parsing JSON and binary data
  • Support for custom storage (e.g. scraping results to a database)
  • Simple JavaScript rendering with Colly's built-in rendering engine.

Colly also provides several optional features, such as support for user-agents, delay between requests, rate-limiting and proxy usage.

Colly's API is quite simple, and it is easy to get started with basic web scraping tasks. It's a good choice for scraping moderate to heavy sites, and it can be useful for a wide range of use cases, such as data mining, content extraction, and more.

Additionally, you can use it together with Goquery, a library that allow you to make jquery like queries on HTML documents and it is often used together with Colly to ease the way of parsing the HTML.

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Example Use


```go // This example extracts all quotes from quotes.toscrape.com and exports to JSON file. func main() { geziyor.NewGeziyor(&geziyor.Options{ StartURLs: []string{"http://quotes.toscrape.com/"}, ParseFunc: quotesParse, Exporters: []export.Exporter{&export.JSON{}}, }).Start() } func quotesParse(g *geziyor.Geziyor, r *client.Response) { r.HTMLDoc.Find("div.quote").Each(func(i int, s *goquery.Selection) { g.Exports <- map[string]interface{}{ "text": s.Find("span.text").Text(), "author": s.Find("small.author").Text(), } }) if href, ok := r.HTMLDoc.Find("li.next > a").Attr("href"); ok { g.Get(r.JoinURL(href), quotesParse) } } ```
```go package main import ( "fmt" "github.com/gocolly/colly/v2" ) func main() { // Instantiate default collector c := colly.NewCollector( // Visit only domains: hackerspaces.org, wiki.hackerspaces.org colly.AllowedDomains("hackerspaces.org", "wiki.hackerspaces.org"), ) // On every a element which has href attribute call callback c.OnHTML("a[href]", func(e *colly.HTMLElement) { link := e.Attr("href") // Print link fmt.Printf("Link found: %q -> %s\n", e.Text, link) // Visit link found on page // Only those links are visited which are in AllowedDomains c.Visit(e.Request.AbsoluteURL(link)) }) // Before making a request print "Visiting ..." c.OnRequest(func(r *colly.Request) { fmt.Println("Visiting", r.URL.String()) }) // Start scraping on https://hackerspaces.org c.Visit("https://hackerspaces.org/") } ```

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