Prompt API - Scraper - Golang Package

PromptAPI struct is a simple golang wrapper for scraper api with few more extra cream and sugar.

---

Requirements

1. You need to signup for Prompt API
2. You need to subscribe scraper api, test drive is free!!!
3. You need to set PROMPTAPI_TOKEN environment variable after subscription.

then;

$ go get -u github.com/promptapi/scraper-go

---

Example Basic Usage

// main.go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"

	scraper "github.com/promptapi/scraper-go"
)

func main() {
	s := new(scraper.PromptAPI)

	params := &scraper.Params{
		URL:      "https://pypi.org/classifiers/",
		Country:  "EE",
	}
	extraHeaders := []*ExtraHeader{} // custom extra headers
	result := new(scraper.Result)

	err := s.Scrape(params, extraHeaders, result)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("Length of incoming data: %d\n", len(result.Data))
	fmt.Printf("Response headers: %v\n", result.Headers)
	fmt.Printf("Content-Length: %v\n", result.Headers["Content-Length"])

	fileSize, err := s.Save("/tmp/test.html", result)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("Size of /tmp/test.html -> %d bytes\n", fileSize)

}

Run:

$ go run main.go 
Length of incoming data: 321322
Response headers: map[Accept-Ranges:bytes Content-Length:321322 Content-Security-Policy:base-uri 'self'; block-all-mixed-content; connect-src 'self' https://api.github.com/repos/ *.fastly-insights.com sentry.io https://api.pwnedpasswords.com https://2p66nmmycsj3.statuspage.io; default-src 'none'; font-src 'self' fonts.gstatic.com; form-action 'self'; frame-ancestors 'none'; frame-src 'none'; img-src 'self' https://warehouse-camo.ingress.cmh1.psfhosted.org/ www.google-analytics.com *.fastly-insights.com; script-src 'self' www.googletagmanager.com www.google-analytics.com *.fastly-insights.com https://cdn.ravenjs.com; style-src 'self' fonts.googleapis.com; worker-src *.fastly-insights.com Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8 Date:Tue, 08 Sep 2020 19:10:24 GMT ETag:"1ea9p+Hscl37dEKelacPWw" Referrer-Policy:origin-when-cross-origin Strict-Transport-Security:max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload Vary:Accept-Encoding, Cookie, Accept-Encoding X-Cache:MISS, HIT X-Cache-Hits:0, 1 X-Content-Type-Options:nosniff X-Frame-Options:deny X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies:none X-Served-By:cache-bwi5127-BWI, cache-hhn4035-HHN X-Timer:S1599592224.395422,VS0,VE247 X-XSS-Protection:1; mode=block]
Content-Length: 321322
Size of /tmp/test.html -> 321322 bytes

You can add url parameters for extra operations. Valid parameters are:

• AuthPassword: for HTTP Realm auth password
• AuthUsername: for HTTP Realm auth username
• Cookie: URL Encoded cookie header.
• Country: 2 character country code. If you wish to scrape from an IP address of a specific country.
• Referer: HTTP referer header
• Selector: CSS style selector path such as a.btn div li. If Selector is enabled, returning result will be collection of data and saved file will be in .json format.

Example with Selector:

// main.go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"

	scraper "github.com/promptapi/scraper-go"
)

func main() {
	s := new(scraper.PromptAPI)

	params := &scraper.Params{
		URL:      "https://pypi.org/classifiers/",
		Country:  "EE",
		Selector: "ul li button[data-clipboard-text]",
	}
	// add extra request headers
	extraHeaders := []*ExtraHeader{
		&ExtraHeader{
			name:  "X-Referer",
			value: "https://www.google.com",
		},
	}
	result := new(scraper.Result)

	err := s.Scrape(params, extraHeaders, result)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("Length of incoming data: %d\n", len(result.Data))
	fmt.Printf("Length of extracted data: %d\n", len(result.DataSelector))
	fmt.Printf("Response headers: %v\n", result.Headers)
	fmt.Printf("Content-Length: %v\n", result.Headers["Content-Length"])

	fileSize, err := s.Save("/tmp/test.json", result)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("Size of /tmp/test.json -> %d bytes\n", fileSize)

}

Run:

$ go run main.go 
Length of incoming data: 0
Length of extracted data: 734
Response headers: map[Accept-Ranges:bytes Content-Length:321322 Content-Security-Policy:base-uri 'self'; block-all-mixed-content; connect-src 'self' https://api.github.com/repos/ *.fastly-insights.com sentry.io https://api.pwnedpasswords.com https://2p66nmmycsj3.statuspage.io; default-src 'none'; font-src 'self' fonts.gstatic.com; form-action 'self'; frame-ancestors 'none'; frame-src 'none'; img-src 'self' https://warehouse-camo.ingress.cmh1.psfhosted.org/ www.google-analytics.com *.fastly-insights.com; script-src 'self' www.googletagmanager.com www.google-analytics.com *.fastly-insights.com https://cdn.ravenjs.com; style-src 'self' fonts.googleapis.com; worker-src *.fastly-insights.com Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8 Date:Tue, 08 Sep 2020 19:17:22 GMT ETag:"1ea9p+Hscl37dEKelacPWw" Referrer-Policy:origin-when-cross-origin Strict-Transport-Security:max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload Vary:Accept-Encoding, Cookie, Accept-Encoding X-Cache:HIT, HIT X-Cache-Hits:1, 1 X-Content-Type-Options:nosniff X-Frame-Options:deny X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies:none X-Served-By:cache-bwi5137-BWI, cache-bma1621-BMA X-Timer:S1599592641.178639,VS0,VE1512 X-XSS-Protection:1; mode=block]
Content-Length: 321322
Size of /tmp/test.json -> 173717 bytes

Let’s see /tmp/test.json file:

[
  "<button class=\"button button--small margin-top margin-bottom copy-tooltip copy-tooltip-w\" data-clipboard-text=\"Development Status :: 1 - Planning\" data-tooltip-label=\"Copy to clipboard\" type=\"button\">\n Copy\n</button>\n",
  "<button class=\"button button--small margin-top margin-bottom copy-tooltip copy-tooltip-w\" data-clipboard-text=\"Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha\" data-tooltip-label=\"Copy to clipboard\" type=\"button\">\n Copy\n</button>\n",
  "<button class=\"button button--small margin-top margin-bottom copy-tooltip copy-tooltip-w\" data-clipboard-text=\"Development Status :: 3 - Alpha\" data-tooltip-label=\"Copy to clipboard\" type=\"button\">\n Copy\n</button>\n",
  "<button class=\"button button--small margin-top margin-bottom copy-tooltip copy-tooltip-w\" data-clipboard-text=\"Development Status :: 4 - Beta\" data-tooltip-label=\"Copy to clipboard\" type=\"button\">\n Copy\n</button>\n",
  "<button class=\"button button--small margin-top margin-bottom copy-tooltip copy-tooltip-w\" data-clipboard-text=\"Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable\" data-tooltip-label=\"Copy to clipboard\" type=\"button\">\n Copy\n</button>\n",
  "<button class=\"button button--small margin-top margin-bottom copy-tooltip copy-tooltip-w\" data-clipboard-text=\"Development Status :: 6 - Mature\" data-tooltip-label=\"Copy to clipboard\" type=\"button\">\n Copy\n</button>\n",
  "<button class=\"button button--small margin-top margin-bottom copy-tooltip copy-tooltip-w\" data-clipboard-text=\"Development Status :: 7 - Inactive\" data-tooltip-label=\"Copy to clipboard\" type=\"button\">\n Copy\n</button>\n",
  ,
  ,
  ,
  ,
  ,
]

---

Development

Available rake tasks:

$ rake -T
rake default                    # Default task, show avaliable tasks
rake release:check              # Do release check
rake release:publish[revision]  # Publish project with revision: major,minor,patch, default: patch
rake serve_doc[port]            # Run doc server
rake test[verbose]              # Run tests

• Run tests: rake test or rake test[-v]
• Run doc server: rake serve_doc or rake serve_doc[9000]

Release package (if you have write access):

1. Commit your changes
2. Run rake release:check
3. If all goes ok, run rake release:publish

---

License

This project is licensed under MIT

---

Contributer(s)

• Prompt API - Creator, maintainer

---

Contribute

All PR’s are welcome!

1. fork (https://github.com/promptapi/scraper-go/fork)
2. Create your branch (git checkout -b my-feature)
3. commit yours (git commit -am 'Add awesome features...')
4. push your branch (git push origin my-feature)
5. Than create a new Pull Request!

This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

---