alivia-ansari / scrape-up

A web-scraping-based python package that enables you to scrape data from various platforms like GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, or any useful website.

Scrape Up

An alternative to API, this project is a web-scraping-based python package that enables you to scrape data from various platforms like GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, or any useful website.

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How to use?

• Install the package from pip

pip install scrape-up --upgrade

• Scrape the required information, for example one want to extract number of followers of a user.

# Import the required module
from scrape_up import github

# Instantiate an object with username provided.
user =  github.Users(username="nikhil25803")

# Cal the followers function
print(user.followers())

# Output - '59'

You can check all the methods that we provide here

The goal 🎯

While working on a project, we often ran into a situation where we faced issues like request timeout, rate limit, etc. But leveraging the power of web scrapping, we are here with a solution. This project is a web-scraping-based Python tool that you may use as an alternative to APIs to scrape data from a variety of sites, including GitHub, Twitter, Instagram, and any helpful website.

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