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Scrapula

Scrapula is a library for scraping web pages that simplifies some of the common actions that are involved.

It has a very simple API that can be used in several ways and contexts, and another, shorter, that facilitates processing pages when characters are scarce, like irb / pry, or quick and dirty scripts.

Requirements

It uses Mechanize and Nokogiri to obtain and extract the information and RSpec for testing.

Configuration

If you want to show the output of some steps:

Scrapula.verbose = true

API

Perform requests:

page = Scrapula.get 'example.net' #=> Scrapula::Page object

page = Scrapula.post 'example.net', { q: 'a query' }   #=> Scrapula::Page object

Extract information from the page:

# Using a CSS selector (all elements)
page.search! 'a'

# Using a CSS selector (fist element)
page.at! 'h1'

# Using XPath (fist element)
page.at! '//'

Perform a GET request:

Scrapula.get 'example.net

S interface

This API is not required by default, so it is up to you to use it:

require 'scrapula/s'

It provides the method and its shortcut For all HTTP verbs:

S.get 'example.net'
S.g 'example.net'

S.post 'example.net'
S.p 'example.net'

S.put 'example.net'
S.u 'example.net'

S.patch 'example.net'
S.a 'example.net'

S.delete 'example.net'
S.d 'example.net'

S.head 'example.net'
S.h 'example.net'

Additionally, GET requests, can be performed with through the shortest invocation:

S 'example.net'

Examples

There are more examples in the examples folder.

Changelog

You can read previous changes in CHANGELOG.md

Contributing

Authors

Juan A. Martín Lucas (https://github.com/j-a-m-l)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.