raccy 2.0.0

Description:

raccy 2.0.0

RACCY
OVERVIEW
Raccy is a multithreaded web scraping library based on selenium.
It can be used for web automation, web scraping, and
data mining.
REQUIREMENTS

Python 3.7+
Works on Linux, Windows, and Mac

ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW


UrlDownloaderWorker: resonsible for downloading item(s) to be scraped urls and enqueue(s) them in ItemUrlQueue


ItemUrlQueue: receives item urls from UrlDownloaderWorker and enqueues them
for feeding them to CrawlerWorker


CrawlerWorker: fetches item web pages and scrapes or extract data from them and enqueues the data in DatabaseQueue


DatabaseQueue: receives scraped item data from CrawlerWorker(s) and enques them
for feeding them to DatabaseWorker.


DatabaseWorker: receives scraped data from DatabaseQueue and stores it in a persistent database.


INSTALL
pip install raccy

TUTORIAL
from raccy import (
UrlDownloaderWorker, CrawlerWorker, DatabaseWorker, WorkersManager
)
import ro as model
from selenium import webdriver
from shutil import which

config = model.Config()
config.DATABASE = model.SQLiteDatabase('quotes.sqlite3')


class Quote(model.Model):
quote_id = model.PrimaryKeyField()
quote = model.TextField()
author = model.CharField(max_length=100)


class UrlDownloader(UrlDownloaderWorker):
start_url = 'https://quotes.toscrape.com/page/1/'
max_url_download = 10

def job(self):
url = self.driver.current_url
self.url_queue.put(url)
self.follow(xpath="//a[contains(text(), 'Next')]", callback=self.job)


class Crawler(CrawlerWorker):

def parse(self, url):
self.driver.get(url)
quotes = self.driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='quote']")
for q in quotes:
quote = q.find_element_by_xpath(".//span[@class='text']").text
author = q.find_element_by_xpath(".//span/small").text

data = {
'quote': quote,
'author': author
}
self.log.info(data)
self.db_queue.put(data)


class Db(DatabaseWorker):

def save(self, data):
Quote.objects.create(**data)


def get_driver():
driver_path = which('.\\chromedriver.exe')
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=driver_path, options=options)
return driver


if __name__ == '__main__':
manager = WorkersManager()
manager.add_driver(get_driver)
manager.start()
print('Done scraping...........')

Author

Afriyie Daniel

Hope You Enjoy Using It !!!!