/scrape-up

A web-scraping-based python package that enables you to scrape data from various platforms like GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, or any useful website.

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🕷️ Scrape Up

An alternative to APIs, Scrape Up is a Python package for web scraping. It allows you to extract data from platforms like GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, or any other website that contains valuable information. It enables you to gather data through programming.





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✨ Features

  • Flexible Scraping: Customize and define the specific data you want to extract from different platforms.
  • Easy-to-Use: Intuitive Python package interface for both beginners and experienced developers.
  • Multiple Platforms: Scrape data from various platforms, including GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, and more.
  • Customizable Data Extraction: Tailor the scraping process to extract the exact information you need.
  • Dynamic Web Scraping: Handle dynamic web pages and AJAX-loaded content.
  • Efficient and Fast: Designed for efficient and reliable scraping of data from multiple sources.

How to use it? ✨

  1. Install the package using pip:
pip install scrape-up --upgrade
  1. Import the required module and instantiate an object with the necessary parameters:
# Import the required module
from scrape_up import GitHub

# Instantiate an object with the username
user = GitHub.Users(username="nikhil25803")
  1. Call the desired method to scrape the required information. For example, to extract the number of followers of a user:
# Call the followers method
followers_count = user.followers()

# Print the output
print(followers_count)

Output:

59
  1. Explore all the available methods provided by Scrape Up on different platforms here.

Happy scrapping! 🕸️

License

License: MIT

Terms and conditions for use, reproduction and distribution are under the MIT License.

The goal 🎯

In our project journey, we encountered several challenges, including requesting timeouts and rate limits. To overcome these limitations, we developed a powerful Python tool based on web scraping. Our goal is to provide an alternative to APIs for extracting data from various platforms, including GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, and any other website that contains valuable information. Here's what our project aims to achieve:

  • Flexibility: Our tool offers a flexible approach to data extraction, allowing you to scrape information from diverse sources according to your specific needs.
  • Avoiding API limitations: By leveraging web scraping techniques, you can bypass the limitations imposed by traditional APIs, such as request timeouts and rate limits.
  • Wide range of platforms: Whether you need data from GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, or any other useful website, our tool is designed to support scraping from various platforms.
  • Ease of use: We strive to make the process of web scraping as simple as possible, providing an intuitive and user-friendly interface for extracting the desired data.
  • Enhanced data accessibility: With our tool, you can access and gather data from websites that might not provide APIs or have limited API functionality, expanding the scope of information available to you.

With our web-scraping-based Python tool, you can unlock a world of data and overcome the limitations often encountered when relying solely on APIs.

✨ Thank You for Your Contribution!

Contributors

🙏 Thank you for your interest in contributing to our project! We appreciate any contributions, whether it's bug fixes, new features, or documentation improvements. Your contributions help make our tool more robust and valuable to the community.

🌟 We value the time and effort you put into contributing, and we look forward to reviewing and merging your contributions. Together, let's make web scraping a powerful and accessible tool for extracting data from various platforms.

✨ Once again, thank you for your contribution!


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