Is Your Scraper Working? Try Scraperr – The Open-Source Scraping Tool
Turn Python scrapers into APIs with Scraperr! Open-source tool to deploy, manage & scale web scrapers effortlessly.
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Have you ever experienced this scenario? You painstakingly write a Python web scraper script, using requests it to send requests efficiently, BeautifulSoup to parse HTML smoothly. It runs beautifully on your local machine, pouring data into your database or CSV files.
But then, your boss suddenly says: "Meng Li, your scraper is great, but could you turn it into a service? So the operations team can use it with a few mouse clicks, or can other systems call it?"
At this point, you might start scratching your head:
How can I make my standalone script available to others? Should I give them a copy and set up a Python environment for them?
How do I create an interface for non-technical staff?
How do I turn it into an API that other services can call?
If I have multiple scraper tasks, how do I manage them? How do I check logs?
Do you feel like you suddenly need to transform from a "script kiddie" to a "full-stack engineer"? Don't panic! Today, we're going to dissect an open-source project called Scraperr and see how it turns a local scraper script into a proper API-based scraping platform.
Once you understand its approach, you'll have a clear idea of how to build similar systems yourself!
Introduction
