# scraperwiki-python
**Repository Path**: jamesxia4/scraperwiki-python
## Basic Information
- **Project Name**: scraperwiki-python
- **Description**: ScraperWiki Python library for scraping and saving data
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: BSD-2-Clause
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No
## Statistics
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- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2014-12-31
- **Last Updated**: 2021-11-02
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## README
ScraperWiki Python library
[](https://travis-ci.org/scraperwiki/scraperwiki-python)
This is a Python library for scraping web pages and saving data.
It is the easiest way to save data on the ScraperWiki platform, and it
can also be used locally or on your own servers.
Installing
pip install scraperwiki
Scraping
- scraperwiki.scrape(url[, params][,user_agent])
Returns the downloaded string from the given url.
params are sent as a POST if set.
user_agent sets the user-agent string if provided.
Saving data
Helper functions for saving and querying an SQL database. Updates
the schema automatically according to the data you save.
Currently only supports SQLite. It will make a local SQLite database.
It is based on the Python module dumptruck. You should expect it to support
other SQL databases at a later date.
- scraperwiki.sql.save(unique_keys, data[, table_name="swdata"])
Saves a data record into the datastore into the table given
by table_name.
data is a dict object with field names as keys;
unique_keys is a subset
of data.keys() which determines when a record is
overwritten.
For large numbers of records data can be a list of dicts.
- scraperwiki.sql.execute(sql[, vars])
Executes any arbitrary SQL command. For
example CREATE, DELETE, INSERT or drop.
vars is an optional list of parameters, inserted when
the SQL command contains ‘?’s.
For example:
scraperwiki.sql.execute("INSERT INTO swdata VALUES (?,?,?)", [a,b,c])
The ‘?’ convention is like "paramstyle qmark"
from Python's
DB API 2.0 (but note that the API to the datastore is
nothing like Python's DB API). In particular the
‘?’ does not itself need quoting, and can in
general only be used where a literal would appear.
- scraperwiki.sql.select(sqlfrag[, vars])
Executes a select command on the datastore. For example:
scraperwiki.sql.select("* FROM swdata LIMIT 10")
Returns a list of dicts that have been selected.
vars is an optional list of parameters, inserted when the
select command contains ‘?’s. This is like the
feature in the .execute command, above.
- scraperwiki.sql.commit()
- Commits to the file after a series of execute commands. (sql.save auto-commits after every action).
- scraperwiki.sql.show_tables([dbname])
- Returns an array of tables and their schemas in the current database.
- scraperwiki.sql.table_info(name)
- Returns an array of attributes for each element of the table.
- scraperwiki.sql.save_var(key, value)
- Saves an arbitrary single-value into a table called
swvariables. Intended to store scraper state so that
a scraper can continue after an interruption.
- scraperwiki.sql.get_var(key[, default])
- Retrieves a single value that was saved by save_var.
Only works for string, float, or int types.
For anything else, use the pickle
library to turn it into a string.
Miscellaneous
- scraperwiki.status(type, message=None)
- If run on the ScraperWiki platform (the new one, not Classic), updates
the visible status of the dataset. If not on the platform, does nothing.
params can be 'ok' or
'error'. If no message is given, it will show the time since the update.
See dataset
status API in the documentation for details.
- scraperwiki.pdftoxml(pdfdata, options='')
- Convert a byte string containing a PDF file into an XML file containing the coordinates
and font of each text string.
options is an optional string of options (!!) to be passed to the underlying pdftohtml command (see the pdftohtml documentation for details).
Refer to
the example
for more details.