ayakashivswombat
Ayakashi is a web scraping library for Node.js that allows developers to easily extract structured data from websites. It is built on top of the popular "puppeteer" library and provides a simple and intuitive API for defining and querying the structure of a website.
Features:
- Powerful querying and data models
Ayakashi's way of finding things in the page and using them is done with props and domQL. Directly inspired by the relational database world (and SQL), domQL makes DOM access easy and readable no matter how obscure the page's structure is. Props are the way to package domQL expressions as re-usable structures which can then be passed around to actions or to be used as models for data extraction. - High level builtin actions
Ready made actions so you can focus on what matters. Easily handle infinite scrolling, single page navigation, events and more. Plus, you can always build your own actions, either from scratch or by composing other actions. - Preload code on pages
Need to include a bunch of code, a library you made or a 3rd party module and make it available on a page? Preloaders have you covered.
Wombat is a Ruby gem that makes it easy to scrape websites and extract structured data from HTML pages. It is built on top of Nokogiri, a popular Ruby gem for parsing and searching HTML and XML documents, and it provides a simple and intuitive API for defining and running web scraping operations.
One of the main features of Wombat is its ability to extract structured data from HTML pages using a simple, CSS-like syntax. It allows you to define a set of rules for extracting data from a page, and then automatically applies those rules to the page's HTML to extract the desired data. This makes it easy to extract data from even complex and dynamic pages, without having to write a lot of custom code.
In addition to its data extraction capabilities, Wombat also provides a variety of other features that can simplify the web scraping process. It can automatically follow links and scrape multiple pages, it can handle pagination and AJAX requests, and it can handle cookies and authentication. It also provides a built-in support for parallelism and queueing to speed up the scraping process.
Example Use
const ayakashi = require("ayakashi");
const myAyakashi = ayakashi.init();
// navigate the browser
await myAyakashi.goTo("https://example.com/product");
// parsing HTML
// first by defnining a selector
myAyakashi
.select("productList")
.where({class: {eq: "product-item"}});
// then executing selector on current HTML:
const productList = await myAyakashi.extract("productList");
console.log(productList);
require 'wombat'
Wombat.crawl do
base_url "https://www.github.com"
path "/"
headline xpath: "//h1"
subheading css: "p.alt-lead"
what_is({ css: ".one-fourth h4" }, :list)
links do
explore xpath: '/html/body/header/div/div/nav[1]/a[4]' do |e|
e.gsub(/Explore/, "Love")
end
features css: '.nav-item-opensource'
business css: '.nav-item-business'
end
end
{
"headline"=>"How people build software",
"subheading"=>"Millions of developers use GitHub to build personal projects, support their businesses, and work together on open source technologies.",
"what_is"=>[
"For everything you build",
"A better way to work",
"Millions of projects",
"One platform, from start to finish"
],
"links"=>{
"explore"=>"Love",
"features"=>"Open source",
"business"=>"Business"
}
}