soup

soup

Web Scraper in Go, similar to BeautifulSoup

soup is a small web scraper package for Go, with its interface highly similar to that of BeautifulSoup.

Exported variables and functions implemented till now :

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Root is a struct, containing three fields :

• Pointer containing the pointer to the current html node
• NodeValue containing the current html node's value, i.e. the tag name for an ElementNode, or the text in case of a TextNode
• Error containing an error in a struct if one occurrs, else nil is returned. A detailed text explaination of the error can be accessed using the Error() function. A field Type in this struct of type ErrorType will denote the kind of error that took place, which will consist of either of the following
  • ErrUnableToParse
  • ErrElementNotFound
  • ErrNoNextSibling
  • ErrNoPreviousSibling
  • ErrNoNextElementSibling
  • ErrNoPreviousElementSibling
  • ErrCreatingGetRequest
  • ErrInGetRequest
  • ErrReadingResponse

Installation

Install the package using the command

go get github.com/anaskhan96/soup

Example

An example code is given below to scrape the "Comics I Enjoy" part (text and its links) from xkcd.

More Examples

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/anaskhan96/soup"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	resp, err := soup.Get("https://xkcd.com")
	if err != nil {
		os.Exit(1)
	}
	doc := soup.HTMLParse(resp)
	links := doc.Find("div", "id", "comicLinks").FindAll("a")
	for _, link := range links {
		fmt.Println(link.Text(), "| Link :", link.Attrs()["href"])
	}
}

Contributions

This package was developed in my free time. However, contributions from everybody in the community are welcome, to make it a better web scraper. If you think there should be a particular feature or function included in the package, feel free to open up a new issue or pull request.