scrape

scrape

A command line scraping utility inspired by scrape.

Features

• Scrape using XPath or CSS selectors
• Process HTML from a URL, STDIN, or a local file
• Extract a particular attribute

Install

Option 1: Binary

Download the latest release from https://github.com/jakewarren/scrape/releases/latest

Option 2: From source

go get github.com/jakewarren/scrape

Usage

Usage of scrape:
  -A, --agent string   user agent string (default "Mozilla/4.0 (Mozilla/4.0; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)")
  -a, --attr string    attribute to scrape (default "html")
  -c, --css string     css selector
  -h, --help           usage information
  -k, --insecure       skip SSL verification
  -x, --xpath string   xpath query

Examples:

Read from URL:

❯ scrape -c "h4 a" -a href "https://www.webscraper.io/test-sites/e-commerce/allinone"
/test-sites/e-commerce/allinone/product/244
/test-sites/e-commerce/allinone/product/269
/test-sites/e-commerce/allinone/product/192

Read from STDIN:

❯ curl -A 'Mozilla/4.0 (Mozilla/4.0; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)' -s "https://www.webscraper.io/test-sites/e-commerce/allinone" | scrape -x "//h4/a" -a href
/test-sites/e-commerce/allinone/product/223
/test-sites/e-commerce/allinone/product/280
/test-sites/e-commerce/allinone/product/278

Read from file:

❯ scrape -x "//h4/a" /tmp/webscrapetest.html
<a href="/test-sites/e-commerce/allinone/product/223" class="title" title="Aspire E1-510">Aspire E1-510</a>
<a href="/test-sites/e-commerce/allinone/product/280" class="title" title="Lenovo V510 Black">Lenovo V510 Blac...</a>
<a href="/test-sites/e-commerce/allinone/product/278" class="title" title="Lenovo V510 Black">Lenovo V510 Blac...</a>