One‑Line Python Web Scraping with Scrapeasy: Quick Start Guide

What is Scrapeasy?

Scrapeasy is a Python library that simplifies web scraping, allowing you to fetch data from single pages or entire sites, extract information from PDFs and HTML tables, and download various media types with minimal code.

Key Features

One‑click site scraping, not limited to a single page.

Built‑in support for common media (images, videos, links).

Ability to retrieve special file types such as .php or .pdf.

Installation

$ pip install scrapeasy

Basic Usage

Import the main classes and create a Website object with the target URL.

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

Getting Subpage Links

Retrieve all sub‑page URLs of the site.

links = web.getSubpagesLinks()

Fetching Images

Collect all image URLs and optionally download them.

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

Extracting Links

Obtain domain links only:

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

Or retrieve all external links without domain filtering:

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

Working with Individual Pages

Create a Page object for a specific URL.

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

Downloading Videos

Download all videos from the page to a folder.

w3.download("video", "w3/videos")
video_links = w3.getVideos()

Downloading Other File Types

Use the generic .get() method to fetch links of a particular extension, or .download() to save them directly.

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

Conclusion

With just a few lines of Python code, Scrapeasy enables rapid extraction of data, media, and files from any website, making it a powerful tool for web scraping and data mining tasks.