An alternative to API, this project is a web-scraping-based python package that enables you to scrape data from various platforms like GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, or any useful website.
- Install the package from
pip
pip install scrape-up --upgrade- Scrape the required information, for example one want to extract number of followers of a user.
# Import the required module
from scrape_up import github
# Instantiate an object with username provided.
user = github.Users(username="nikhil25803")
# Cal the followers function
print(user.followers())
# Output - '59'You can check all the methods that we provide here
While working on a project, we often ran into a situation where we faced issues like request timeout, rate limit, etc. But leveraging the power of web scrapping, we are here with a solution. This project is a web-scraping-based Python tool that you may use as an alternative to APIs to scrape data from a variety of sites, including GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, and any helpful website.