cutout

A toolbox for data grabbing and processing in python 3

Introduction

cutout is a Python toolbox for data grabbing and processing. Types::

• Grab html page to get data
• Download files from the Internet
• ProgressBar for download
• Cache use memory or file system
• Generate SQL statements
• More powerful features

This software is still under development, improvement and perfection.

Pre-requisites

• Python 3.4+
• import PyMySQL

Installation

You can download cutout by click here, and use it in your code like this::

from cutout import download, cutout
from cutout.common import get_html, get_argv_dict
from cutout.util import sec2time
...

Documentation

中文API手册

To get baidu music pc software download url, like this::

>>> from cutout import cutout
>>> para = {} #p aram
>>> para['url'] = 'http://music.baidu.com/'
>>> para['start'] = '<a class="downloadlink-pc"'
>>> para['end'] = '>下载PC版</a>'
>>> para['dealwith'] = { 'start':'href="', 'rid':'"', 'end':'"' } # get href url
>>> cutout(**para) # do grab
'http://qianqian.baidu.com/download/BaiduMusic-12345630.exe'

To create a cache, like this::

>>> from cutout.cache import FileCache
>>> c = FileCache('./cache') # set cache dir './cache'
>>> c.set("foo", "value")
>>> c.get("foo")
'value'
>>> c.get("missing") is None
True

To create a ProgressBar for download, like this:：

>>> from cutout import download
>>> from cutout.common import ProgressBar
>>> bar = ProgressBar(piece_total=1);
>>> face = { 'sh_piece_division':1024, 'sh_piece_unit':'KB' }
>>> bar.face(**face)
>>> download('http://qianqian.baidu.com/download/BaiduMusic-12345630.exe',showBar=bar)
'[=============================>                    ]  59.23%  14.81%/s  1280.00KB/s  5120.00KB/8644.81KB  00:00:04'

Read or run the example.py to get more example.

Download and use the browser to open the document.zh.htm, A detailed understanding of all API.

$ python3 cutout/test.py

Author

cutout is developed and maintained by Yang Jie (yangjie@jojoin.com). It can be found here: http://github.com/jojoin/cutout

Contact way:

• Home : http://jojoin.com
• Email: yangjie@jojoin.com
• QQ : 446342398