Using Scrapeasy: A One‑Line Python Library for Web Scraping and Media Download

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

Scrapeasy is a Python library that can easily scrape web pages and extract data, supporting single‑page or multi‑page crawling as well as extracting data from PDF and HTML tables.

Key features include one‑click site crawling (not limited to a single page), built‑in handling of common scraping tasks (links, images, videos), and the ability to retrieve special file types such as .php or .pdf .

Installation

<code>$ pip install scrapeasy</code>

Basic usage

<code>from scrapeasy import Website, Page</code>

Initialize a website

<code>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>

Note that the returned URLs may lack the http://www. prefix, which you should add when making actual requests.

Find images

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

The response contains links to all available images on the site.

Download media

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

This command downloads every image (identified by the keyword img ) to the specified local folder.

Retrieve links

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

To get external links without domain filtering:

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

Working with a single page

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

Download all videos from the page:

<code>w3.download("video", "w3/videos")</code>

<code>video_links = w3.getVideos()</code>

Download other file types such as PDFs or PHP files:

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

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

In summary, Python’s versatility and Scrapeasy’s one‑line API make it a powerful tool for web scraping and data mining, allowing you to extract virtually any content from a website within seconds.