One-Line Python Scraping with Scrapeasy: Extract Data, Images, PDFs, Videos

If you are looking for a powerful Python web‑scraping tool, Scrapeasy lets you start extracting data with a single line of code.

What is Scrapeasy?

Scrapeasy is a Python library that simplifies web crawling and data extraction. It can scrape a single page or multiple pages, and also extract data from PDF and HTML tables.

Key Features

One‑click website scraping – not limited to a single page.

Common scraping tasks (fetching links, images, or videos) are built‑in.

Retrieve special file types such as .php or .pdf from the crawled sites.

Installation

$ pip install scrapeasy

Basic Usage

Import the main classes: from scrapeasy import Website, Page Initialize a website object by providing the homepage URL:

web = Website("https://tikocash.com/solange/index.php/2022/04/13/how-do-you-control-irrational-fear-and-overthinking/")

Get all sub‑page links: links = web.getSubpagesLinks() Fetch all image links on the site: images = web.getImages() Download all images to a local folder:

web.download("img", "fahrschule/images")

Link Extraction

Retrieve domain links only:

domains = web.getLinks(intern=False, extern=False, domain=True)

Retrieve all external links (excluding domain filtering):

domains = web.getLinks(intern=False, extern=True, domain=False)

Page Operations

Initialize a page object (example from w3schools):

w3 = Page("https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp")

Download all videos from the page: w3.download("video", "w3/videos") Or just get video URLs:

video_links = w3.getVideos()

Downloading Other File Types

Download specific file types such as PDFs, PHP files, or icons using the generic .get() method or the .download() method with a file‑type argument:

calendar_links = Page("https://tikocash.com").get("php")

Download all PDFs from a page:

Page("http://mathcourses.ch/mat182.html").download("pdf", "mathcourses/pdf-files")

Conclusion

Python is a versatile language that, with just one line of code, can scrape any website in seconds, making it a powerful tool for web crawling and data mining.