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python-selenium

💻 (30-Mar-2021) See your Python code do web browsing on your screen with GUI.

Important note:

Before you try to scrape any website, go through its robots.txt file. You can access it via domainname/robots.txt. There, you will see a list of pages allowed and disallowed for scraping. You should not violate any terms of service of any website you scrape.

Requirements

Installation

Configure This Project

cp .env.example .env
python -m venv env && \
  source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py makemigrations 
python manage.py migrate

Run Your Selenium Server JAR File

Locate where you downloaded your Selenium Server JAR file in the requirements step and run the following.

java -jar selenium-server-[version].jar standalone --override-max-sessions true --max-sessions 10

CLI options in the Selenium Grid.

Usage

Update the command at crawl.py to perform your instructions in web scraping.

python manage.py crawl

XPath element selector cheat sheet.

Using Docker?

alias compose='docker-compose -f local.yml'
compose build
compose up
# Automated runs with Docker:
# compose up --build -d && python manage.py crawl

iPython Django Shell

py manage.py shell -i ipython

API

py manage.py show_urls

Admin

Admin creds are set in ./compose/local/django/start.

export DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=secret

py manage.py createsuperuser \
  --username admin_user \
  --email admin@django-app.com \
  --no-input \
  --first_name Admin \
  --last_name User

Cache react app & view templates

py manage.py collectstatic

Mail Server

docker-mailhog.png

Mail environment credentials are at .env.

The mailhog docker image runs at http://localhost:8025.

Misc

See Python Amazon Scraper.

See Python ReactJS Boilerplate.

See PHP Scraper.

See PHP ReactJS Boilerplate.

See Amazon Scraper.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

BSD

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