Extract structured data from web sites. Web sites scraping.
Dataflow kit ("DFK") is a Web Scraping framework for Gophers. It extracts data from web pages, following the specified CSS Selectors.
You can use it in many ways for data mining, data processing or archiving.
Web-scraping pipeline consists of 3 general components:
fetch.d server is intended for html web pages content download. Depending on Fetcher type, web page content is downloaded using either Base Fetcher or Chrome fetcher.
Base fetcher uses standard golang http client to fetch pages as is. It works faster than Chrome fetcher. But Base fetcher cannot render dynamic javascript driven web pages.
Chrome fetcher is intended for rendering dynamic javascript based content. It sends requests to Chrome running in headless mode.
A fetched web page is passed to parse.d service.
parse.d is the service that extracts data from downloaded web page following the rules listed in configuration JSON file. Extracted data is returned in CSV, MS Excel, JSON or XML format.
Note: Sometimes Parse service cannot extract data from some pages retrieved by default Base fetcher. Empty results may be returned while parsing Java Script generated pages. Parse service then attempts to force Chrome fetcher to render the same dynamic javascript driven content automatically. Have a look at https://scrape.dataflowkit.com/persons/page-0 which is a sample of JavaScript driven web page.
Scraping of JavaScript generated pages;
Data extraction from paginated websites;
Processing infinite scrolled pages.
Sсraping of websites behind login form;
Cookies and sessions handling;
Following links and detailed pages processing;
Managing delays between requests per domain;
Following robots.txt directives;
Saving intermediate data in Diskv or Mongodb. Storage interface is flexible enough to add more storage types easily;
Encode results to CSV, MS Excel, JSON(Lines), XML formats;
Dataflow kit is fast. It takes about 4-6 seconds to fetch and then parse 50 pages.
Dataflow kit is suitable to process quite large volumes of data. Our tests show the time needed to parse appr. 4 millions of pages is about 7 hours.
go get -u github.com/slotix/dataflowkit
Install Docker and Docker Compose
Start services.
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/slotix/dataflowkit && docker-compose up
This command fetches docker images automatically and starts services.
curl -XPOST 127.0.0.1:8001/parse --data-binary "@$GOPATH/src/github.com/slotix/dataflowkit/examples/books.toscrape.com.json"
Here is the sample json configuration file:
{
"name":"collection",
"request":{
"url":"https://example.com"
},
"fields":[
{
"name":"Title",
"selector":".product-container a",
"extractor":{
"types":["text", "href"],
"filters":[
"trim",
"lowerCase"
],
"params":{
"includeIfEmpty":false
}
}
},
{
"name":"Image",
"selector":"#product-container img",
"extractor":{
"types":["alt","src","width","height"],
"filters":[
"trim",
"upperCase"
]
}
},
{
"name":"Buyinfo",
"selector":".buy-info",
"extractor":{
"types":["text"],
"params":{
"includeIfEmpty":false
}
}
}
],
"paginator":{
"selector":".next",
"attr":"href",
"maxPages":3
},
"format":"json",
"fetcherType":"chrome",
"paginateResults":false
}
Read more information about scraper configuration JSON files at our GoDoc reference
Extractors and filters are described at https://godoc.org/github.com/slotix/dataflowkit/extract
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/slotix/dataflowkit && docker-compose down --remove-orphans --volumes
Click on image to see CLI in action.
docker run --init -it --rm -d --name chrome --shm-size=1024m -p=127.0.0.1:9222:9222 --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN \
yukinying/chrome-headless-browser
Headless Chrome is used for fetching web pages to feed a Dataflow kit parser.
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/slotix/dataflowkit/cmd/fetch.d && go build && ./fetch.d
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/slotix/dataflowkit/cmd/parse.d && go build && ./parse.d
docker-compose -f test-docker-compose.yml up -d
./test.sh
docker-compose -f test-docker-compose.yml down
Try https://dataflowkit.com/dfk Front-end with Point-and-click interface to Dataflow kit services. It generates JSON config file and sends POST request to DFK Parser
Click on image to see Dataflow kit in action.
This is Free Software, released under the BSD 3-Clause License.
You are welcome to contribute to our project.