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gocolly/colly

gocolly/colly

Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang

repo name gocolly/colly
repo link https://github.com/gocolly/colly
homepage http://go-colly.org/
language Go
size (curr.) 8366 kB
stars (curr.) 10216
created 2017-09-29
license Apache License 2.0

Colly

Lightning Fast and Elegant Scraping Framework for Gophers

Colly provides a clean interface to write any kind of crawler/scraper/spider.

With Colly you can easily extract structured data from websites, which can be used for a wide range of applications, like data mining, data processing or archiving.

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Features

  • Clean API
  • Fast (>1k request/sec on a single core)
  • Manages request delays and maximum concurrency per domain
  • Automatic cookie and session handling
  • Sync/async/parallel scraping
  • Caching
  • Automatic encoding of non-unicode responses
  • Robots.txt support
  • Distributed scraping
  • Configuration via environment variables
  • Extensions

Example

func main() {
	c := colly.NewCollector()

	// Find and visit all links
	c.OnHTML("a[href]", func(e *colly.HTMLElement) {
		e.Request.Visit(e.Attr("href"))
	})

	c.OnRequest(func(r *colly.Request) {
		fmt.Println("Visiting", r.URL)
	})

	c.Visit("http://go-colly.org/")
}

See examples folder for more detailed examples.

Installation

go get -u github.com/gocolly/colly/v2/...

Bugs

Bugs or suggestions? Visit the issue tracker or join #colly on freenode

Other Projects Using Colly

Below is a list of public, open source projects that use Colly:

If you are using Colly in a project please send a pull request to add it to the list.

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [Contribute].

Backers

Thank you to all our backers! 🙏 [Become a backer]

Sponsors

Support this project by becoming a sponsor. Your logo will show up here with a link to your website. [Become a sponsor]

License

FOSSA Status

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