Patu

patu is a simple command line scraper for daily scraping. It is designed for usage not speed.

Patu is a genus of spiders in the family Symphytognathidae that occurs in Colombia and Oceania. Patu digua is the smallest species of spider described to date.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'patu'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install patu

Type in your command prompt.

  patu <url> <css> #this will only yield a single column data

For mulitple webpages or multiple elements, use a data.yml to define patu

- path: "data.csv"
- url:
    https://rubygems.org/gems/aka2
    https://rubygems.org/gems/aka2
    https://rubygems.org/gems/aka2
    https://rubygems.org/gems/aka2
- column_array:
  - column:
      name: "well"
      pattern: "a.something"
  - column:
      name: "well"
      pattern: "a.something"

call patu, it will auto detect data.yml

patu

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ytbryan/patu. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

Patu is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.