BeautifulSoup Scraper
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BeautifulSoup Scraper
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Crawls websites using raw HTTP requests. It parses the HTML with the BeautifulSoup library and extracts data from the pages using Python code. Supports both recursive crawling and lists of URLs. This Actor is a Python alternative to Cheerio Scraper.
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Get a demoMax crawling depth
maxCrawlingDepthintegerOptional
Specifies how many links away from the Start URLs the scraper will descend. Note that pages added using context.request_queue in Page function are not subject to the maximum depth constraint.
Default value of this property is 1
Request timeout
requestTimeoutintegerOptional
The maximum duration (in seconds) for the request to complete before timing out. The timeout value is passed to the httpx.AsyncClient object.
Default value of this property is 10
Link selector
linkSelectorstringOptional
A CSS selector stating which links on the page (<a> elements with href attribute) shall be followed and added to the request queue. To filter the links added to the queue, use the Link patterns field.
If the Link selector is empty, the page links are ignored. Of course, you can work with the page links and the request queue in the Page function as well.
Link patterns
linkPatternsarrayOptional
Link patterns (regular expressions) to match links in the page that you want to enqueue. Combine with Link selector to tell the scraper where to find links. Omitting the link patterns will cause the scraper to enqueue all links matched by the Link selector.
Page function
pageFunctionstringRequired
A Python function, that is executed for every page. Use it to scrape data from the page, perform actions or add new URLs to the request queue. The page function has its own naming scope and you can import any installed modules. Typically you would want to obtain the data from the context.soup object and return them. Identifier page_function can't be changed. For more information about the context object you get into the page_function check the github.com/apify/actor-beautifulsoup-scraper#context. Asynchronous functions are supported.
BeautifulSoup features
soupFeaturesstringOptional
The value of BeautifulSoup features argument. From BeautifulSoup docs: Desirable features of the parser to be used. This may be the name of a specific parser ("lxml", "lxml-xml", "html.parser", or "html5lib") or it may be the type of markup to be used ("html", "html5", "xml"). It's recommended that you name a specific parser, so that Beautiful Soup gives you the same results across platforms and virtual environments.
BeautifulSoup from_encoding
soupFromEncodingstringOptional
The value of BeautifulSoup from_encoding argument. From BeautifulSoup docs: A string indicating the encoding of the document to be parsed. Pass this in if Beautiful Soup is guessing wrongly about the document's encoding.
BeautifulSoup exclude_encodings
soupExcludeEncodingsarrayOptional
The value of BeautifulSoup exclude_encodings argument. From BeautifulSoup docs: A list of strings indicating encodings known to be wrong. Pass this in if you don't know the document's encoding but you know Beautiful Soup's guess is wrong.
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19 monthly users
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4 stars
>99% runs succeeded
Created in Jul 2023
Modified 22 days ago
