Scraperr – A Self Hosted Webscraper

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A powerful self-hosted web scraping solution

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Scraperr enables you to extract data from websites with precision using XPath selectors. This self-hosted application provides a clean interface to manage scraping jobs, view results, and export data.

📚 Check out the docs for a comprehensive quickstart guide and detailed information.

Scraperr Main Interface

  • XPath-Based Extraction: Precisely target page elements
  • Queue Management: Submit and manage multiple scraping jobs
  • Domain Spidering: Option to scrape all pages within the same domain
  • Custom Headers: Add JSON headers to your scraping requests
  • Media Downloads: Automatically download images, videos, and other media
  • Results Visualization: View scraped data in a structured table format
  • Data Export: Export your results in various formats
  • Notifcation Channels: Send completion notifcations, through various channels

⚖️ Legal and Ethical Guidelines

When using Scraperr, please remember to:

  1. Respect robots.txt: Always check a website's robots.txt file to verify which pages permit scraping
  2. Terms of Service: Adhere to each website's Terms of Service regarding data extraction
  3. Rate Limiting: Implement reasonable delays between requests to avoid overloading servers

Disclaimer: Scraperr is intended for use only on websites that explicitly permit scraping. The creator accepts no responsibility for misuse of this tool.

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Development made easier with the webapp template.

To get started, simply run make build up-dev.

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