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Description

gazpacho is a web scraping library. It replaces requests and BeautifulSoup for most projects. gazpacho is small, simple, fast, and consistent. You should use it!

Programming language: Python
License: MIT License
Latest version: v1.1

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README


About

gazpacho is a simple, fast, and modern web scraping library. The library is stable, actively maintained, and installed with zero dependencies.

Install

Install with pip at the command line:

pip install -U gazpacho

Quickstart

Give this a try:

from gazpacho import get, Soup

url = 'https://scrape.world/books'
html = get(url)
soup = Soup(html)
books = soup.find('div', {'class': 'book-'}, partial=True)

def parse(book):
    name = book.find('h4').text
    price = float(book.find('p').text[1:].split(' ')[0])
    return name, price

[parse(book) for book in books]

Tutorial

Import

Import gazpacho following the convention:

from gazpacho import get, Soup

get

Use the get function to download raw HTML:

url = 'https://scrape.world/soup'
html = get(url)
print(html[:50])
# '<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n  <head>\n    <met'

Adjust get requests with optional params and headers:

get(
    url='https://httpbin.org/anything',
    params={'foo': 'bar', 'bar': 'baz'},
    headers={'User-Agent': 'gazpacho'}
)

Soup

Use the Soup wrapper on raw html to enable parsing:

soup = Soup(html)

Soup objects can alternatively be initialized with the .get classmethod:

soup = Soup.get(url)

.find

Use the .find method to target and extract HTML tags:

h1 = soup.find('h1')
print(h1)
# <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en">Soup</h1>

attrs=

Use the attrs argument to isolate tags that contain specific HTML element attributes:

soup.find('div', attrs={'class': 'section-'})

partial=

Element attributes are partially matched by default. Turn this off by setting partial to False:

soup.find('div', {'class': 'soup'}, partial=False)

mode=

Override the mode argument {'auto', 'first', 'all'} to guarantee return behaviour:

print(soup.find('span', mode='first'))
# <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
len(soup.find('span', mode='all'))
# 8

dir()

Soup objects have html, tag, attrs, and text attributes:

dir(h1)
# ['attrs', 'find', 'get', 'html', 'strip', 'tag', 'text']

Use them accordingly:

print(h1.html)
# '<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en">Soup</h1>'
print(h1.tag)
# h1
print(h1.attrs)
# {'id': 'firstHeading', 'class': 'firstHeading', 'lang': 'en'}
print(h1.text)
# Soup

Support

If you use gazpacho, consider adding the scraper: gazpacho badge to your project README.md:

[![scraper: gazpacho](https://img.shields.io/badge/scraper-gazpacho-C6422C)](https://github.com/maxhumber/gazpacho)

Contribute

For feature requests or bug reports, please use Github Issues

For PRs, please read the CONTRIBUTING.md document