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Extract data from web pages, including HTML parsing, API interaction, and data export

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Web Scraping Skill

This skill enables web scraping and data extraction capabilities.

When to Use

Use this skill when you need to:

  • Scrape data from websites
  • Interact with REST APIs
  • Parse HTML content
  • Export scraped data to various formats

Scraping Methods

Static HTML Scraping

For static websites, use CSS selectors to extract data.

Dynamic Content

For JavaScript-heavy sites, use browser automation.

API Access

For structured data access, prefer REST or GraphQL APIs.

Code Tools

This skill includes:

  • @code: python scraper.py --input {input} - Generic web scraper
  • @code: bash fetch.sh {url} - Simple HTTP fetcher

Best Practices

  1. Check robots.txt: Always respect site scraping policies
  2. Rate limiting: Add delays between requests to avoid overwhelming servers
  3. User-Agent: Identify your bot properly
  4. Error handling: Gracefully handle network errors and timeouts

Example

To scrape a webpage:

Use the web_scraping skill to extract product information from https://example.com/products