freebsd-ports/devel/py-grab/pkg-descr
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Grab is a python web scraping framework. Grab provides tons of helpful methods
to scrape web sites and to process the scraped content:
* Automatic cookies (session) support
* HTTP and SOCKS proxy with and without authorization
* Keep-Alive support
* IDN support
* Tools to work with web forms
* Easy multipart file uploading
* Flexible customization of HTTP requests
* Automatic charset detection
* Powerful API of extracting info from HTML documents with XPATH queries
* Asynchronous API to make thousands of simultaneous queries. This part of
library called Spider and it is too big to even list its features in this
README.
* Python 3 ready
WWW: http://grablib.org/