WebDumper
grub-2.0
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WebDumper
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Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch
I've had decent experience using [1] WebDumper to scrape SPA (single page applications), which rely almost entirely DOM rendering and client-side JS.
I'm curious if folks here had any other recommendations for scraping SPAs, ie React or Angular applications.
1: https://github.com/EllyMandliel/WebDumper
- WebDumper - A tool I made for unpaking Single Page Applications using source maps. It works pretty nicely.
grub-2.0
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I want to dive into how to make search engines
Not finished, but the Selenium based crawler works pretty well to combat most blocks: https://github.com/kordless/grub-2.0
For IP blocks, try this: https://github.com/kordless/mitta-screenshot
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Ask HN: Decent, open source search engine?
I started https://mitta.us as this, but am pivoting to prompt management for GPT-3. I've Open Sourced the code for the crawler here: https://github.com/kordless/grub-2.0. The entire system uses Google Vision for extracting text. I dislike fiddling with the DOM...
If you are interested in using Solr for this, I can provide instructions to you. I'm kordless at the gmails ... com.
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How to Scrape and Extract Hyperlink Networks with BeautifulSoup and NetworkX
Depending on the use case you might try imaging the page, then send the image to an ML model for full text before indexing. If you need links extracted, Selenium also supports parsing the assembled DOM: https://github.com/kordless/grub-2.0/tree/main/aperture
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Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch
I’ve found imaging the page and doing OCR on the image is quite good for text extraction. Many pages on the Internet render with JavaScript, which means BS may not see the text in the DOM.
Here is the code to do some of that: https://github.com/kordless/grub-2.0
What are some alternatives?
rod - A Devtools driver for web automation and scraping
ChromeController - Comprehensive wrapper and execution manager for the Chrome browser using the Chrome Debugging Protocol.
skyscraper - Structural scraping for the rest of us.
mitta-screenshot - Mitta's Chrome extension for saving the current view of a website.
phalanx - Phalanx is a cloud-native distributed search engine that provides endpoints through gRPC and traditional RESTful API.
markov - Materials for book: "Markov Chains for programmers"
colly - Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang
now - 🧞 No-code tool for creating a neural search solution in minutes
search-engines - Reviewing alternative search engines