Ferret

a web scraping system
aiming to simplify data extraction from the web

Declarative

ferret has a declarative query language that makes it easy to focus on a data that you need to get.

Dynamic pages support

ferret has the ability to scrape JS rendered pages, handle all page events and emulate user interactions.

Embeddable

ferret was designed as a library from the ground up. it can be easily embedded into any Go application.


Hello, Ferret!

ferret helps you to focus on the data you need using an easy to learn declarative language

LET doc = DOCUMENT('https://github.com/topics') FOR el IN ELEMENTS(doc, '.py-4.border-bottom') LIMIT 10 LET url = ELEMENT(el, 'a') LET name = ELEMENT(el, '.f3') LET description = ELEMENT(el, '.f5') RETURN { name: TRIM(name.innerText), description: TRIM(description.innerText), url: 'https://github.com' + url.attributes.href }

LET doc = DOCUMENT('https://soundcloud.com/charts/top', { driver: 'cdp' }) WAIT_ELEMENT(doc, '.chartTrack__details', 5000) LET tracks = ELEMENTS(doc, '.chartTrack__details') FOR track IN tracks RETURN { artist: TRIM(INNER_TEXT(track, '.chartTrack__username')), track: TRIM(INNER_TEXT(track, '.chartTrack__title')) }

Dynamic pages handled easily

ferret uses Chrome/Chromium via Chrome Devtools Protocol to handle dynamically rendered web pages


Simple extensibility

ferret is extremely extensible - creating custom functions and types is super easy

transform := func(ctx context.Context, args ...core.Value) (core.Value, error) { str := args[0].(values.String) return values.NewString(strings.ToUpper(str.String() + "_ferret")), nil } query := ` FOR el IN ["foo", "bar", "qaz"] RETURN TRANSFORM(el) ` comp := compiler.New() if err := comp.RegisterFunction("transform", transform); err != nil { return nil, err } program, err := comp.Compile(query)