soup VS goskyr

> Does anyone know if there as a good equivalent for Go

Yes: https://github.com/anaskhan96/soup

It works well.

Web scraping is a handy tool to have in a data scientist's skill set. It can be useful in a variety of situations to gather data, such as when a website does not provide an API. We will be using this golang package github.com/anaskhan96/soup. It performs the same as beautifulsoup of python. This is the webpage we are going to be scraping.

Check this library: https://github.com/anaskhan96/soup to parse html

I am currently building a webscraper, called goskyr, that can be run from the command line and is supposed to be easily configurable. So instead of having to write code to scrape a website you'd just write a configuration snippet and run the scraper. I realize that there are a number of gui based scraping services that make it extremely easy to setup a scraping process for any website, so for people having no coding experience whatsoever that would probably be the easiest solution. I'm trying to come close to those gui based solutions in terms of functionality by providing a 'smart' way of finding potentially interesting data/fields and letting the user select a subset in a terminal based ui. Also date extraction & parsing and the newly added machine learning capability is probably worth mentioning. Still, those other, gui based solutions are really awesome, eg octoparse or scrapestorm.

I am currently working on a configurable command line webscraper, called goskyr and my first use case is collecting as much concert data as possible for this website idea I had, croncert.ch I am hoping that people other than me are willing to contribute to the scraper configuration file in this repository, https://github.com/jakopako/croncert-config, which also contains a github action to regularly run the scraper. What do you think? Could this work? How should I spread the word?