Spidy 0.1

Overview

Spidy is an open source scripting language for Web scraping. Spidy makes scraping easy because it has:

* Flexibility of scripting language
* XPath selectors to extract data
* Support for HTML and JSON formats
* Templates for output formatting

Requirements

Spidy is written in Python and relies on Python Standard Library only.

• Python 2.7

• Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, BSD

Install

Installing from Python Package Index:

pip install spidy

For Windows installation instructions, please see documentation in docs directory.

Usage

‘Hello world’ example with Spidy shell:

import spidy
print spidy.do('''return 'Hello, world!' ''')

Documentation

Documentation is available in the docs directory. Script examples are located in examples directory.