Web Scraper with Scheduling
A web scraping tool with configurable selectors, pagination handling, data extraction scheduling, and export. Supports CSS and XPath selectors, rate limiting, proxy rotation, and structured data ou...
Target user
Researchers and data engineers who collect web data
Problem
Researchers need to collect structured data from websites with configurable selectors, pagination, and scheduling without writing custom scraping scripts for each site.
Requirements
- Configure CSS and XPath selectors for extraction
- Handle pagination automatically
- Schedule recurring scrape jobs
- Rate limiting and respectful crawling
- Export scraped data to JSON or CSV
Core technologies
Python, FastAPI, BeautifulSoup
Completion criteria
Users can configure and run web scrapers with selectors, pagination, scheduling, and data export.
Optional extensions
- Add proxy rotation
- Implement captcha handling
- Add data cleaning pipeline
- Support JavaScript rendering
Project phases
Phase 1: Phase 1: Scraping Engine
Tasks: Set up FastAPI project, Implement HTTP fetching with rate limiting, Build CSS and XPath selector extraction, Add pagination handling
Phase 2: Phase 2: Configuration and Scheduling
Tasks: Build scrape job configuration API, Implement scheduled job execution, Add job status tracking, Create scrape history
Phase 3: Phase 3: Export and Polish
Tasks: Add JSON and CSV export, Implement data transformation, Create API documentation, Add error handling and retries