photonvsgracy
Photon is a Python library for web scraping. It is designed to be lightweight and fast, and can be used to extract data from websites and web pages. Photon can extract the following data while crawling:
- URLs (in-scope & out-of-scope)
- URLs with parameters (example.com/gallery.php?id=2)
- Intel (emails, social media accounts, amazon buckets etc.)
- Files (pdf, png, xml etc.)
- Secret keys (auth/API keys & hashes)
- JavaScript files & Endpoints present in them
- Strings matching custom regex pattern
- Subdomains & DNS related data
The extracted information is saved in an organized manner or can be exported as json.
Gracy is an API client library based on httpx that provides an extra stability layer with:
- Retry logic
- Logging
- Connection throttling
- Tracking/Middleware
In web scraping, Gracy can be a convenient tool for creating scraper based API clients.
Example Use
```python
from photon import Photon
#Create a new Photon instance
ph = Photon()
#Extract data from a specific element of the website
url = "https://www.example.com"
selector = "div.main"
data = ph.get_data(url, selector)
#Print the extracted data
print(data)
#Extract data from multiple websites asynchronously
urls = ["https://www.example1.com", "https://www.example2.com"]
data = ph.get_data_async(urls)
```
```python
# 0. Import
import asyncio
from typing import Awaitable
from gracy import BaseEndpoint, Gracy, GracyConfig, LogEvent, LogLevel
# 1. Define your endpoints
class PokeApiEndpoint(BaseEndpoint):
GET_POKEMON = "/pokemon/{NAME}" # 👈 Put placeholders as needed
# 2. Define your Graceful API
class GracefulPokeAPI(Gracy[str]):
class Config: # type: ignore
BASE_URL = "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/" # 👈 Optional BASE_URL
# 👇 Define settings to apply for every request
SETTINGS = GracyConfig(
log_request=LogEvent(LogLevel.DEBUG),
log_response=LogEvent(LogLevel.INFO, "{URL} took {ELAPSED}"),
parser={
"default": lambda r: r.json()
}
)
async def get_pokemon(self, name: str) -> Awaitable[dict]:
return await self.get(PokeApiEndpoint.GET_POKEMON, {"NAME": name})
# Note: since Gracy is based on httpx we can customized the used client with custom headers etc"
def _create_client(self) -> httpx.AsyncClient:
client = super()._create_client()
client.headers = {"User-Agent": f"My Scraper"}
return client
pokeapi = GracefulPokeAPI()
async def main():
try:
pokemon = await pokeapi.get_pokemon("pikachu")
print(pokemon)
finally:
pokeapi.report_status("rich")
asyncio.run(main())
```
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