trawl

Trawl is a command line tool used for web scraping and crawling. It is built in Python and aims to simplify the process of collecting data from websites.

With Trawl, you can specify a starting URL and it will recursively follow links to other pages, allowing you to extract information from multiple webpages.

It has features like customizable filters, which allow you to define criteria for the data you want to scrape. You can filter URLs, HTML tags, attributes, and even apply regular expressions to refine your extraction process.

Trawl supports both dynamic and static websites, allowing it to work effectively with websites that load content using JavaScript. It uses asynchronous processing to scrape multiple pages simultaneously, enhancing the scraping speed.

This command line tool outputs the scraped data in various formats such as CSV, JSON, and SQLite database files, making it easy to integrate the collected data into your projects.

Trawl also provides options to handle cookies, timeouts, and delays, allowing you to mimic human browsing behavior and avoid detection or blocking from websites.

The tool supports authentication, so you can provide login credentials to access restricted content or perform actions on authenticated websites.

It supports scraping websites with multiple languages and character encodings, ensuring that data is correctly processed regardless of the website's language.

Trawl has detailed documentation and examples to help users understand and utilize its various features effectively.

It is an open-source tool, meaning that you can contribute to its development or modify it to suit your specific scraping needs.