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ScraperCodeGenerator

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Ondřej Hlava

Ondřej Hlava

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An intelligent web scraping tool that automatically generates custom scraping code for any website.

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You can access the ScraperCodeGenerator programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9 "targetUrl": "https://books.toscrape.com/",
10 "userGoal": "Get me a list of all the books on the first page. For each book, I want its title, price, star rating, and whether it is in stock.",
11 "actors": [
12 {
13 "name": "cheerio-scraper",
14 "enabled": True,
15 "input": {
16 "maxRequestRetries": 3,
17 "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
18 "maxPagesPerCrawl": 1,
19 "pageFunction": """async function pageFunction(context) {
20 const { request, log, $ } = context;
21 try {
22 const title = $('title').text() || '';
23 const html = $('html').html() || '';
24 return {
25 url: request.url,
26 title: title,
27 html: html
28 };
29 } catch (error) {
30 log.error('Error in pageFunction:', error);
31 return {
32 url: request.url,
33 title: '',
34 html: ''
35 };
36 }
37}""",
38 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
39 },
40 },
41 {
42 "name": "web-scraper",
43 "enabled": False,
44 "input": {
45 "maxRequestRetries": 3,
46 "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
47 "maxPagesPerCrawl": 1,
48 "pageFunction": """async function pageFunction(context) {
49 const { request, log, page } = context;
50 try {
51 const title = await page.title();
52 const html = await page.content();
53 return {
54 url: request.url,
55 title: title,
56 html: html
57 };
58 } catch (error) {
59 log.error('Error in pageFunction:', error);
60 return {
61 url: request.url,
62 title: '',
63 html: ''
64 };
65 }
66}""",
67 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
68 },
69 },
70 {
71 "name": "website-content-crawler",
72 "enabled": True,
73 "input": {
74 "maxCrawlPages": 1,
75 "crawler": "playwright",
76 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
77 },
78 },
79 {
80 "name": "playwright-scraper",
81 "enabled": False,
82 "input": {
83 "maxRequestRetries": 2,
84 "requestTimeoutSecs": 45,
85 "maxPagesPerCrawl": 1,
86 "pageFunction": """async function pageFunction(context) {
87 const { request, log, page } = context;
88 try {
89 const title = await page.title();
90 const html = await page.content();
91 return {
92 url: request.url,
93 title: title,
94 html: html
95 };
96 } catch (error) {
97 log.error('Error in pageFunction:', error);
98 return {
99 url: request.url,
100 title: '',
101 html: ''
102 };
103 }
104}""",
105 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
106 },
107 },
108 ],
109}
110
111# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
112run = client.actor("ohlava/scrapercodegenerator").call(run_input=run_input)
113
114# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
115print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
116for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
117 print(item)
118
119# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

ScraperCodeGenerator API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use ScraperCodeGenerator API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include: