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alirezamika/autoscraper

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TLDR

A Python library that learns to scrape websites from just a few examples of the data you want. Show it one sample value and it finds all matching items on the page, no HTML knowledge or CSS selectors needed.

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  root((AutoScraper))
    How it works
      Give example data
      Learns page structure
      Finds all matches
      No HTML required
    Modes
      All similar items
      Exact structured output
    Features
      Save trained scraper
      Custom HTTP headers
      Proxy support
    Use cases
      Scrape articles
      Extract prices
      Build data APIs
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Scrape all article titles from a forum by giving the library one example title, no CSS selectors or XPath needed.

USE CASE 2

Pull live financial data from a webpage and turn it into a simple API by combining AutoScraper with a web server.

USE CASE 3

Save a trained scraper to disk and reuse it on similar pages later without retraining.

Tech stack

Python

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Open source and installable from PyPI, the README does not specify the exact license type.

In plain English

AutoScraper is a Python library that makes collecting data from websites much simpler than traditional scraping tools. You give it a web page address and one or a few examples of the data you want to pull, and it learns the underlying structure of the page to find similar items. Once trained, you can point it at other pages of the same type and it will return matching content without additional setup. The core idea is that you do not need to inspect HTML source code or write custom rules for each website. You pick a sample: a post title, a stock price, a link. The library figures out where that type of content lives on the page and finds all items that match the same pattern. There are two modes: one that returns all similar items on a page, and one that returns the exact same fields in the exact same order each time, which is useful when you want consistent structured output from multiple pages. Once a scraper is trained on a site, you can save it to a file and load it later, so you do not have to repeat the learning step. Custom request settings like proxy servers or HTTP headers can be passed in, which helps when a site requires specific configurations. The tool is installable with pip and requires Python 3. The README provides short, working code examples covering common use cases: pulling related article titles from a forum, retrieving a live financial figure, and extracting metadata from a repository page. There is also a link to a tutorial showing how to combine AutoScraper with a web server to turn any website into a simple data API. The project is open source and hosted on PyPI for easy installation. The README is concise and the examples cover the main functionality clearly.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I want to use AutoScraper to extract all product names from an e-commerce page. Show me the Python code to train it on one example product name and then run it on a list of URLs.
Prompt 2
I trained an AutoScraper but it's picking up extra items I don't want. How do I filter the results to only keep the patterns I need?
Prompt 3
The site I'm scraping requires specific HTTP headers to avoid being blocked. How do I pass custom headers to AutoScraper?
Prompt 4
I want to save my trained AutoScraper and reload it in a different script later. How do I do that?
Prompt 5
Show me how to turn an AutoScraper result into a simple REST API endpoint so I can query the scraped data over HTTP.
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