ppp_thing
scraper
ppp_thing | scraper | |
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3 | 12 | |
7 | 98 | |
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0.0 | 0.0 | |
about 1 year ago | about 1 year ago | |
C | TypeScript | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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ppp_thing
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Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
I wrote a PPPoE client with failover so I can keep the session even when one of my gateways fails or is rebooted (this lets me do regular maintenance without interrupting my internet connection); I put it on github[1], but I doubt anyone will use it. I hope there are few people left with the scourge that is PPPoE, and my OS choice means many people would need to switch OSes to use it, so yeah. Also, I don't care to make it easy to use or to promote it, really. (I've mentioned it once or twice and did a Show HN that got less than ten votes, which I kind of expected).
I've also got my personal (network) monitoring software, some 'IoT' stuff to capture temperature and humidity data around my house, and I'm working on a ESP32 based alarm clock pulling data from iCalendar.
[1] https://github.com/russor/ppp_thing
- Show HN: PPPoE client with session handoff between redundant FreeBSD routers
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What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
I just published https://github.com/russor/ppp_thing which lets me (and maybe you) failover my PPPoE session between two FreeBSD hosts, so I can do regular maintenance without losing my IP or impacting TCP sessions.
I used to let my DSL modem handle PPPoE and NAT, so failover was easy, but found out fragmented IPv6 crashed the leased modem, and the replacement modem also sucks, so bridge mode + a custom PPPoE client (but from netgraph pieces) it is. Sadly useful in 2021, because PPPoE is somehow still a thing.
scraper
- Most Used Individual JavaScript Libraries - jQuery still leads
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Most Used JavaScript Libraries (percentage) - June 2022 [OC]
Additional info and source code for generating the dataset, summarizing it and rendering the chart are available at https://github.com/get-set-fetch/scraper/tree/main/datasets/javascript-libs-from-top-1mm-sites
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How to collaborate on web scraping?
Store the scrape progress (to-be-scraped / in-progress / scraped / in-error URLs) in a database shared by all participants and scrape in parallel with as many machines as the db load permits. Got a connection timeout / IP is blocked on one machine ? Update the scrape status for the corresponding URL and let another machine retry it. https://github.com/get-set-fetch/scraper (written in typescript) follows this idea. Using Terraform from a simple config file you can adjust the number of scraper instances to be deployed in cloud at startup and during the scraping process. In benchmarks a PostgreSQL server running on a DigitalOcean vm with 4vCPU, 8GB memory allows for ~2000 URLs to be scraped per second (synthetic data, no external traffic). From my own experience this is almost never the bottleneck. Obeying robots.txt crawl-delay will surely put you under this limit. Disclaimer: I'm the npm package author.
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How to serve scrapped data?
Written in typescript https://github.com/get-set-fetch/scraper stores scraped content directly in a database (sqlite, mysql, postgresql). Each URL represents a Resource. You can implement your own IResourceStorage and define the exact db columns you need.
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How to scrape entire blogs with content?
You can use https://github.com/get-set-fetch/scraper with a custom plugin based on the mozilla/readability as detailed in https://getsetfetch.org/node/custom-plugins.html (extracting news article content). I think it's a close match to your use case.
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A simple solution to rotate proxies or how to spin up your own rotation proxy server with Puppeteer and only a few lines of JS code
I'm currently implementing concurrency conditions at project/proxy/domain/session level in https://github.com/get-set-fetch/scraper . On each level you can define the maximum number of requests and the delay between two consecutive requests.
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Web scraping content into postgresql? Scheduling web scrapers into a pipeline with airflow?
If you're familiar with nodejs give https://github.com/get-set-fetch/scraper a try. Scraped content can be stored in sqlite, mysql or postgresql. It also supports puppeteer, playwright, cheerio or jsdom for the actual content extraction. No scheduler though.
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Web Scraping 101 with Python
I'm using this exact strategy to scrape content directly from DOM using APIs like document.querySelectorAll. You can use the same code in both headless browser clients like Puppeteer or Playwright and DOM clients like cheerio or jsdom (assuming you have a wrapper over document API). Depending on the way a web page was fetched (opened in a browser tab or fetched via nodejs http/https requests), ExtractHtmlContentPlugin, ExtractUrlsPlugin use different DOM wrappers (native, cheerio, jsdom) to scrape the content.
[1] https://github.com/get-set-fetch/scraper/blob/main/src/plugi...
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What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
https://github.com/get-set-fetch/scraper - I've been working (intermittently :) ) on a nodejs or browser extension scraper for the last 3 years, see the other projects under the get-set-fetch umbrella. Putting a lot more effort lately as I really want to do those Alexa top 1 million analysis like top js libraries, certificate authorities and so on. A few weeks back I've posted on Show:HN as you can do basic/intermediate? scraping with it.
Not capable of handling 1 mil+ pages as it still limited to puppeteer or playwright. Working on adding cheerio/jsdom support right now.
What are some alternatives?
polybar-clockify - Control Clockify through Polybar
puppeteer-cluster - Puppeteer Pool, run a cluster of instances in parallel
vopono - Run applications through VPN tunnels with temporary network namespaces
playwright-recaptcha-solver - ReCaptcha V2 solver for Playwright
meal-scheduler
playwright-python - Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library.
place
pyppeteer - Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer)
fingine - A personal finance simulation engine in Rust.
Twitch-Drops-Bot - A Node.js bot that will automatically watch Twitch streams and claim drop rewards.
tiny-snitch - an interactive firewall for inbound and outbound connections