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Trafilatura is a Python package and command-line tool designed to gather text on the Web. It includes discovery, extraction and text-processing components. Its main applications are web crawling, downloads, scraping, and extraction of main texts, metadata and comments. It aims at staying handy and modular: no database is required, the output can be converted to various commonly used formats. Going from raw HTML to essential parts can alleviate many problems related to text quality, first by...

...Instead of depending on deprecated unauthenticated scraping methods, it works by using X’s web GraphQL API together with authenticated browser cookies, which gives it a more current and practical approach for data extraction. The project supports a broad set of collection patterns, including searches by keyword, hashtag, user, date range, engagement thresholds, language, and location, making it useful for research, monitoring, and data gathering workflows. It is built for both local use and higher-volume runs, with support for proxies, dedicated accounts, and multi-account cookie handling to improve reliability at scale. ...

Scraping publicly-accessible Letterboxd data and creating a movie recommendation model with it that can generate recommendations when provided with a Letterboxd username. A user's "star" ratings are scraped from their Letterboxd profile and assigned numerical ratings from 1 to 10 (accounting for half stars). Their ratings are then combined with a sample of ratings from the top 4000 most active users on the site to create a collaborative filtering recommender model using singular value...

...Internally, the crawler uses a fork of the wpull engine to fetch and process web pages efficiently during large-scale crawls. grab-site includes a built-in dashboard that displays real-time crawl activity, including which URLs are currently being processed and how many remain in the queue. Users can dynamically apply ignore patterns during an active crawl, allowing them to skip problematic or unnecessary URLs that could slow down or block the archiving process. grab-site also provides predefined ignore sets for common site structures such as forums and other complex web platforms. Additional mechanisms like duplicate page detection help avoid re-crawling identical content.

...Instead of defining extraction logic by hand, users provide a few examples of the data they want to retrieve from a webpage. It analyzes those examples within the HTML document and determines patterns or rules that can be used to extract the same type of information from similar pages. Once trained, the generated scraper can process new pages and return the extracted data in structured formats such as dictionaries or lists. This approach simplifies web scraping tasks by shifting the focus from rule-writing to example-based training. ...