datasette-scraper

Oct 20, 2023

datasette-scraper is a Datasette plugin to manage small-ish (~100K pages) crawl and extract jobs.

Opinionated yet extensible
- Some useful tasks are possible out-of-the-box, or write your own pluggy hooks to go further
Leans heavily into SQLite
- Introspect your crawls via ops tables exposed in Datasette
Built on robust libraries
- Datasette as a host
- selectolax for HTML parsing
- httpx for HTTP requests
- pluggy for extensibility
- zstandard for efficiently compressing HTTP responses

Not for adversarial crawling. Want to crawl a site that blocks bots? You're on your own.