collyvsruia
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.
Ruia is an async web scraping micro-framework, written with asyncio and aiohttp, aims to make crawling url as convenient as possible.
Ruia is inspired by scrapy however instead of Twisted it's based entirely on asyncio and aiohttp.
It also supports various features like cookies, headers, and proxy, which makes it very useful in dealing with complex web scraping tasks.
Highlights
Example Use
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/")
}
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Target: https://news.ycombinator.com/
pip install aiofiles
"""
import aiofiles
from ruia import AttrField, Item, Spider, TextField
class HackerNewsItem(Item):
target_item = TextField(css_select="tr.athing")
title = TextField(css_select="a.storylink")
url = AttrField(css_select="a.storylink", attr="href")
async def clean_title(self, value):
return value.strip()
class HackerNewsSpider(Spider):
start_urls = [
"https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=1",
"https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=2",
]
concurrency = 10
# aiohttp_kwargs = {"proxy": "http://0.0.0.0:1087"}
async def parse(self, response):
async for item in HackerNewsItem.get_items(html=await response.text()):
yield item
async def process_item(self, item: HackerNewsItem):
async with aiofiles.open("./hacker_news.txt", "a") as f:
self.logger.info(item)
await f.write(str(item.title) + "\n")
if __name__ == "__main__":
HackerNewsSpider.start(middleware=None)