autoscraper

Why we included this project

Hand-writing scrapers means keeping CSS selectors in sync with whatever markup a site happens to serve today, and that upkeep gets old fast. AutoScraper sidesteps it. You hand it a page and a few example values you want pulled out, and it works out the matching rules on its own. That learned object then runs against other pages with the same layout, returning similar items or exact values, like related question titles on Stack Overflow or a live stock price. For quick data pulls, tracking a handful of pages, or grabbing product listings without re-writing selectors for every site, it is a genuinely handy library. The whole thing stays small and readable, so a small team can automate extraction without standing up a browser-automation stack just to fetch a few fields.