Scraper-lang (WIP)

A DSL aimed at making writing web scrapers/crawlers a breeze

Example

init {
  get "https://google.com", { "Authorization": "Token asdflkjasdflj" }
  headers = {
    "Accept": "application/json"
  }
  @anchors get "https://google.com", headers

  urls = ['https://google.com', 'https://chura.co.ke']
  @anchors get urls, headers
}

default {
  print content
}

anchors {
  print headers, headers['Content-Length']
  print headers['Content-Type']
  anchors = jq 'a#base'
  anchors.loop(() {
    @anchor get it~href
    print it~id
  })
  closure = (item, index ) {
    @anchor get item~href
  }
  anchors.loop  closure
}

TODO:

• Make "post" expressions keyword expressions
• Handle quering JSON responses
• Handle GraphQL queries
• Implement Resolver
  • Will check that there are no cycles
  • Check return statement is used properly
  • Check for missing but referenced tagged closures
• Design how to handle terminating conditions for tagged closures that might lead into an infinite loop