One‑Line Python Web Scraping with Scrapeasy: Installation, Usage, and Media Download Guide

Scrapeasy is a Python library that enables one‑line web scraping, allowing users to fetch data from websites, PDFs, and HTML tables with minimal code.

Key features include one‑click site crawling, handling of common media types (links, images, videos), and support for special file formats such as .php and .pdf.

Installation

<code>$ pip install scrapeasy</code>

Basic usage

Import the required classes and create a Website object with the target URL:

<code>from scrapeasy import Website, Page
web = Website("https://tikocash.com/solange/index.php/2022/04/13/how-do-you-control-irrational-fear-and-overthinking/")</code>

Retrieve all sub‑page links:

<code>links = web.getSubpagesLinks()</code>

Fetch all images on the site:

<code>images = web.getImages()</code>

Download all images to a local folder:

<code>web.download("img", "fahrschule/images")</code>

Obtain domain links only:

<code>domains = web.getLinks(intern=False, extern=False, domain=True)</code>

Obtain all external links (non‑domain):

<code>domains = web.getLinks(intern=False, extern=True, domain=False)</code>

Working with a single page, e.g., a W3Schools video page:

<code>w3 = Page("https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp")
w3.download("video", "w3/videos")
video_links = w3.getVideos()</code>

Download specific file types such as PDFs or PHP files using the generic .get() or .download() methods:

<code>calendar_links = Page("https://tikocash.com").get("php")
Page("http://mathcourses.ch/mat182.html").download("pdf", "mathcourses/pdf-files")</code>

In summary, Scrapeasy provides a concise, high‑level API for web crawling and data extraction, making Python a powerful tool for web scraping and data mining tasks.