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Dude (dude uncomplicated data extraction) is a very simple framework for writing web scrapers using Python decorators. The design, inspired by Flask, was to easily build a web scraper in just a few lines of code. Dude has an easy-to-learn syntax.

The simplest web scraper will look like this: ```python from dude import select

@select(css="a") def get_link(element): return {"url": element.get_attribute("href")} ```

dude supports multiple parser backends: - playwright
- lxml
- parsel - beautifulsoup - pyppeteer - selenium

Example Use


```python from dude import select

""" This example demonstrates how to use Parsel + async HTTPX To access an attribute, use: selector.attrib["href"] You can also access an attribute using the ::attr(name) pseudo-element, for example "a::attr(href)", then: selector.get() To get the text, use ::text pseudo-element, then: selector.get() """

@select(css="a.url", priority=2) async def result_url(selector): return {"url": selector.attrib["href"]}

Option to get url using ::attr(name) pseudo-element

@select(css="a.url::attr(href)", priority=2) async def result_url2(selector): return {"url2": selector.get()}

@select(css=".title::text", priority=1) async def result_title(selector): return {"title": selector.get()}

@select(css=".description::text", priority=0) async def result_description(selector): return {"description": selector.get()}

if name == "main": import dude

dude.run(urls=["https://dude.ron.sh"], parser="parsel")

```

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