Karim shoair
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77 lines
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## Introduction
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Fetchers are classes that can do requests or fetch pages for you easily in a single-line fashion with many features and then return a [Response](#response-object) object. Starting with v0.3, all fetchers have separate classes to keep the session running, so for example, a fetcher that uses a browser will keep the browser open till you finish all your requests through it instead of opening multiple browsers. So it depends on your use case.
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This feature was introduced because, before v0.2, Scrapling was only a parsing engine. The target here is to gradually become the one-stop shop for all Web Scraping needs.
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> Fetchers are not wrappers built on top of other libraries. However, they utilize these libraries as an engine to request/fetch pages easily for you, while fully leveraging that engine and adding features for you. Some fetchers don't even use the official library for requests; instead, they use their own custom version. For example, `StealthyFetcher` utilizes `Camoufox` browser directly, without relying on its Python library for anything except launch options. This last part might change soon as well.
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## Fetchers Overview
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Scrapling provides three different fetcher classes with their session classes; each fetcher is designed for a specific use case.
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The following table compares them and can be quickly used for guidance.
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| Feature | Fetcher | DynamicFetcher | StealthyFetcher |
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|--------------------|---------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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| Relative speed | 🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇 | 🐇🐇🐇 | 🐇🐇 |
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| Stealth | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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| Anti-Bot options | ⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
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| JavaScript loading | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
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| Memory Usage | ⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐ |
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| Best used for | Basic scraping when HTTP requests alone can do it | - Dynamically loaded websites <br/>- Small automation<br/>- Slight protections | - Dynamically loaded websites <br/>- Small automation <br/>- Complicated protections |
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| Browser(s) | ❌ | Chromium and Google Chrome | Modified Firefox |
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| Browser API used | ❌ | PlayWright | PlayWright |
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| Setup Complexity | Simple | Simple | Simple |
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In the following pages, we will talk about each one in detail.
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## Parser configuration in all fetchers
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All fetchers share the same import method, as you will see in the upcoming pages
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```python
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>>> from scrapling.fetchers import Fetcher, AsyncFetcher, StealthyFetcher, DynamicFetcher
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```
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Then you use it right away without initializing like this, and it will use the default parser settings:
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```python
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>>> page = StealthyFetcher.fetch('https://example.com')
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```
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If you want to configure the parser ([Selector class](../parsing/main_classes.md#selector)) that will be used on the response before returning it for you, then do this first:
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```python
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>>> from scrapling.fetchers import Fetcher
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>>> Fetcher.configure(adaptive=True, encoding="utf-8", keep_comments=False, keep_cdata=False) # and the rest
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```
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or
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```python
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>>> from scrapling.fetchers import Fetcher
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>>> Fetcher.adaptive=True
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>>> Fetcher.encoding="utf-8"
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>>> Fetcher.keep_comments=False
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>>> Fetcher.keep_cdata=False # and the rest
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```
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Then, continue your code as usual.
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The available configuration arguments are: `adaptive`, `huge_tree`, `keep_comments`, `keep_cdata`, `storage`, and `storage_args`, which are the same ones you give to the [Selector](../parsing/main_classes.md#selector) class. You can display the current configuration anytime by running `<fetcher_class>.display_config()`.
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> Note: The `adaptive` argument is disabled by default; you must enable it to use that feature.
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### Set parser config per request
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As you probably understand, the logic above for setting the parser config will apply globally to all requests/fetches made through that class, and it's intended for simplicity.
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If your use case requires a different configuration for each request/fetch, you can pass a dictionary to the request method (`fetch`/`get`/`post`/...) to an argument named `custom_config`.
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## Response Object
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The `Response` object is the same as the [Selector](../parsing/main_classes.md#selector) class, but it has additional details about the response, like response headers, status, cookies, etc., as shown below:
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```python
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>>> from scrapling.fetchers import Fetcher
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>>> page = Fetcher.get('https://example.com')
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>>> page.status # HTTP status code
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>>> page.reason # Status message
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>>> page.cookies # Response cookies as a dictionary
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>>> page.headers # Response headers
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>>> page.request_headers # Request headers
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>>> page.history # Response history of redirections, if any
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>>> page.body # Raw response body without any processing
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>>> page.encoding # Response encoding
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```
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All fetchers return the `Response` object. |