Difficulty in acquiring inspect element code through scrapy - xpath

I have written a small code to scrape the inspect element code to apply css or xpath selectors from this website https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-12.0/centery:25.0/zoom:4. Now, I am unable to get that code, I am getting page source code instead. As, I am novice in Python, not able to figure out what to do.
I am attaching my code here.
import scrapy
class MarineSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = "marine"
start_urls = ['http://quotes.toscrape.com/page/1/']
def start_requests(self):
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0'}
for url in self.start_urls:
yield scrapy.Request(url = url, headers=headers)
def parse(self, response):
file_name = 'innercode.html'
with open(file_name, 'wb') as f:
f.write(response.body)

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I am new to Mechanize and trying to overcome this probably very obvious answer.
I put together a short script to auth on an external site, then click a link that generates a CSV file dynamically.
I have finally got it to click on the export button, however, it returns an AWS URL.
I'm trying to get the script to download said CSV from this JSON Response (seen below).
Myscript.rb
require 'mechanize'
require 'logger'
require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
require 'zlib'
USERNAME = "myemail"
PASSWORD = "mysecret"
USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36"
mechanize = Mechanize.new do |a|
a.user_agent = USER_AGENT
end
form_page = mechanize.get('https://XXXX.XXXXX.com/signin')
form = form_page.form_with(:id =>'login')
form.field_with(:id => 'user_email').value=USERNAME
form.field_with(:id => 'user_password').value=PASSWORD
page = form.click_button
donations = mechanize.get('https://XXXXX.XXXXXX.com/pages/ACCOUNT/statistics')
puts donations.body
donations = mechanize.get('https://xxx.siteimscraping.com/pages/myaccount/statistics')
bs_csv_download = page.link_with(:text => 'Download CSV')
JSON response from website containing link to CSV I need to parse and download via Mechanize and/or nokogiri.
{"message":"Find your report at https://s3.amazonaws.com/reports.XXXXXXX.com/XXXXXXX.csv?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256\u0026X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIKW4BJKQUNOJ6D2A%2F20190228%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request\u0026X-Amz-Date=20190228T025844Z\u0026X-Amz-Expires=86400\u0026X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host\u0026X-Amz-Signature=b19b6f1d5120398c850fc03c474889570820d33f5ede5ff3446b7b8ecbaf706e"}
I very much appreciate any help.
You could parse it as JSON and then retrieve a substring from the response (assuming it always responds in the same format):
require 'json'
...
bs_csv_download = page.link_with(:text => 'Download CSV')
json_response = JSON.parse(bs_csv_download)
direct_link = json_response["message"][20..-1]
mechanize.get(direct_link).save('file.csv')
We're getting the 20th character in the "message" value with [20..-1] (-1 means till the end of the string).

For Loops with Scrapy

Hey y'all I have been trying to learn scrapy, and am working on my first project right now. I have written this code to try to scrape NFL player news from http://www.rotoworld.com/playernews/nfl/football/?rw=1. I tried to set up a loop to get each container from the site, but when I run the code it isn't scraping anything. The code runs fine, even pus out a csv file when I ask it too. It just isn't scraping what I think I am telling it to scrape. Any help would be great! Thanks
import scrapy
from Roto_Player_News.items import NFLNews
class Roto_News_Spider2(scrapy.Spider):
name="PlayerNews2"
allowed_domains = ["rotoworld.com"]
start_urls = ('http://www.rotoworld.com/playernews/nfl/football/',)
def parse(self,response):
containers= response.xpath('//*[#id="cp1_pnlNews"]/div/div[2]')
def parse(self, response):
for container in containers:
def parse(self, response):
item=NFLNews()
item['player']= response.xpath('//div[#class="pb"][1]/div[#id="cp1_ctl00_rptBlurbs_floatingcontainer_0"]/div[#class="report"]/text()')
item['headline'] = response.xpath('//div[#class="pb"][1]/div[#id="cp1_ctl00_rptBlurbs_floatingcontainer_0"]/div[#class="report"]/p/text()').extract()
item['info'] = response.xpath('//div[#class="pb"][1]/div[#id="cp1_ctl00_rptBlurbs_floatingcontainer_0"]/div[#class="impact"]/text()').extract()
item['date'] = response.xpath('//div[#class="pb"][1]/div[#id="cp1_ctl00_rptBlurbs_floatingcontainer_0"]/div[#class="info"]/div[#class="date"]/text()').extract()
item['source'] = response.xpath('//div[#class="pb"][1]/div[#id="cp1_ctl00_rptBlurbs_floatingcontainer_0"]/div[#class="info"]/div[#class="source"]/a/text()').extract()
yield item
Your defined xpaths do not look good. Try this instead. It should fetch you the content you wish to scrape. Just do the copy and paste.
import scrapy
class Roto_News_Spider2(scrapy.Spider):
name = "PlayerNews2"
start_urls = [
'http://www.rotoworld.com/playernews/nfl/football/',
]
def parse(self, response):
for item in response.xpath("//div[#class='pb']"):
player = item.xpath(".//div[#class='player']/a/text()").extract_first()
report = item.xpath(".//div[#class='report']/p/text()").extract_first()
date = item.xpath(".//div[#class='date']/text()").extract_first()
impact = item.xpath(".//div[#class='impact']/text()").extract_first().strip()
source = item.xpath(".//div[#class='source']/a/text()").extract_first()
yield {"Player": player,"Report":report,"Date":date,"Impact":impact,"Source":source}

Ruby - nokogiri, open-uri - Fail to parse page [closed]

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This code work on some pages, like klix.ba, but cant figure out why it doesn't work for others.
There is no error to explain what went wrong, nothing.
If puts page works, which means I can target the page, and parse it, why I cant get single elements?
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
url = 'http://www.olx.ba/'
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7"
page = Nokogiri::XML(open(url,'User-Agent' => user_agent), nil, "UTF-8")
#puts page - This line work
puts page.xpath('a')
First of all, why are you parsing it as XML?
The following should be correct, considering your page is a HTML website:
page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url,'User-Agent' => user_agent), nil, "UTF-8")
Furthermore, if you want to strip out all the links (a-tags), this is how:
page.css('a').each do |element|
puts element
end
If you are want to parse content from a web page you need to do this:
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
url = 'http://www.olx.ba/'
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7"
page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url,'User-Agent' => user_agent), nil, "UTF-8")
#puts page - This line work
puts page.xpath('a')
Here take a look at the Nokogiri documentation
One thing I would suggest is to use a debugger break point in your code (probably after assigning page). Look at the Pry-debugger gem.
So I would do something like this:
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
require 'pry' # require the necessary library
url = 'http://www.olx.ba/'
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7"
page = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url,'User-Agent' => user_agent), nil, "UTF-8")
binding.pry # stop a moment in time in you code (break point)
#puts page - This line work
puts page.xpath('a')

How to scrape Google search using Nokogiri

I'd like to scrape a few Google search pages for the "Did you mean" spelling checking section.
For example, if I search for "cardiovascular diesese", it will be linked to
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=cardiovascular%20diesese
I want to scrape the "Search instead for cardiovascular diesese" part.
How can I this by using Nokogiri and XPath?
If you can use the non-JavaScript URL, this should work:
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://www.google.com/search?q=cardiovascular+diesese"))
doc.xpath("string(//span[#class='spell_orig']/a)") # => "cardiovascular diesese"
If you can render JavaScript and need to use your original example URL, this XPath selector should work once you've loaded the document into Nokogiri (tested with $x in Chrome):
doc.xpath("//a[#class='spell_orig'][boolean(#href)]/text()") # => "cardiovascular diesese"
Since you want to extract only a single result, you can use at_xpath shortcut which under the hood is still doing xpath/css.first. To locate element via Dev Tools you need to go to Elements Tab -> Right Click on the element -> Copy -> Copy Xpath.
To grab text:
doc.at_xpath("//*[#id='fprs']/a[2]/text()") #=> cardiovascular disease
# or you can use at_css which is faster for class names
doc.at_css("a.spell_orig/text()") #=> cardiovascular disease
To grab link:
doc.at_xpath("//*[#id='fprs']/a[2]/#href") #=> /search?hl=en&q=cardiovascular+diesese&nfpr=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqhZfu0KbyAhVLRKwKHWbBDNsQvgUoAXoECAEQMg
# or you can use at_css which is faster for class names
doc.at_css("a.spell_orig/#href") #=> /search?hl=en&q=cardiovascular+diesese&nfpr=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqhZfu0KbyAhVLRKwKHWbBDNsQvgUoAXoECAEQMg
Code and example in the online IDE:
require 'nokogiri'
require 'httparty'
headers = {
"User-Agent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.19582"
}
params = {
q: "cardiovascular diesese",
hl: "en"
}
response = HTTParty.get("https://www.google.com/search",
query: params,
headers: headers)
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(response.body)
puts doc.at_xpath("//*[#id='fprs']/a[2]/text()"),
"https://www.google.com#{doc.at_xpath("//*[#id='fprs']/a[2]/#href")}"
# or at_css which is faster for class names and produces better XPath than written by hand
puts doc.at_css("a.spell_orig/text()"),
doc.at_css("a.spell_orig/#href")
-------
=begin
cardiovascular diesese
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cardiovascular+diesese&nfpr=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjS5Mevr6vyAhWMK80KHXg8AwoQvgUoAXoECAEQMQ
cardiovascular diesese
/search?hl=en&q=cardiovascular+diesese&nfpr=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjS5Mevr6vyAhWMK80KHXg8AwoQvgUoAXoECAEQMQ
=end
Alternatively, you can use Google Organic Results API from SerpApi. It's a paid API with a free plan that supports different languages.
The difference is that in this case, the figure out part of how to extract some elements from the page is missing. All that needs to be done is to iterate over a structured JSON.
Code to integrate:
require 'google_search_results'
params = {
api_key: ENV["API_KEY"],
engine: "google",
q: "cardiovascular diesese",
hl: "en"
}
search = GoogleSearch.new(params)
hash_results = search.get_hash
search_instead_for = hash_results[:search_information][:spelling_fix]
puts search_instead_for
-------
#=> cardiovascular disease
Disclaimer, I work for SerpApi.

Trouble scraping Google trends using Capybara and Poltergeist

I want to get the top trending queries in a particular category on Google Trends. I could download the CSV for that category but that is not a viable solution because I want to branch into each query and find the trending sub-queries for each.
I am unable to capture the contents of the following table, which contains the top 10 trending queries for a topic. Also for some weird reason taking a screenshot using capybara returns a darkened image.
<div id="TOP_QUERIES_0_0table" class="trends-table">
Please run the code on the Ruby console to see it working. Capturing elements/screenshot works fine for facebook.com or google.com but doesn't work for trends.
I am guessing this has to do with the table getting generated dynamically on page load but I'm not sure if that should block capybara from capturing the elements already loaded on the page. Any hints would be very valuable.
require 'capybara/poltergeist'
require 'capybara/dsl'
require 'csv'
class PoltergeistCrawler
include Capybara::DSL
def initialize
Capybara.register_driver :poltergeist_crawler do |app|
Capybara::Poltergeist::Driver.new(app, {
:js_errors => false,
:inspector => false,
phantomjs_logger: open('/dev/null')
})
end
Capybara.default_wait_time = 3
Capybara.run_server = false
Capybara.default_driver = :poltergeist_crawler
page.driver.headers = {
"DNT" => 1,
"User-Agent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0"
}
end
# handy to peek into what the browser is doing right now
def screenshot(name="screenshot")
page.driver.render("public/#{name}.jpg",full: true)
end
# find("path") and all("path") work ok for most cases. Sometimes I need more control, like finding hidden fields
def doc
Nokogiri.parse(page.body)
end
end
crawler = PoltergeistCrawler.new
url = "http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-45&geo=US&date=today%2012-m&cmpt=q"
crawler.visit url
crawler.screenshot
crawler.find(:xpath, "//div[#id='TOP_QUERIES_0_0table']")
Capybara::ElementNotFound: Unable to find xpath "//div[#id='TOP_QUERIES_0_0table']"
from /Users/karan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p545/gems/capybara-2.4.4/lib/capybara/node/finders.rb:41:in block in find'
from /Users/karan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p545/gems/capybara-2.4.4/lib/capybara/node/base.rb:84:insynchronize'
from /Users/karan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p545/gems/capybara-2.4.4/lib/capybara/node/finders.rb:30:in find'
from /Users/karan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p545/gems/capybara-2.4.4/lib/capybara/session.rb:676:inblock (2 levels) in '
from /Users/karan/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p545/gems/capybara-2.4.4/lib/capybara/dsl.rb:51:in block (2 levels) in <module:DSL>'
from (irb):45
from /Users/karan/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p484/bin/irb:12:in'
The javascript error was due to the incorrect USER-Agent. Once I changed the User Agent to that of my chrome browser it worked !
"User-Agent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.71 Safari/537.36"

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