Scraping assistant tool. Editing and maintaining CSS/XPath selectors across webpages.
Available as a Chrome/Chromium and a Firefox extensions.
Quick way to interactively pick and maintain CSS/XPath selectors and their presets for external use: website testing or scraping.
Features include:
- Element picker (from SelectorGadget).
- List of presets ever worked on.
- Preset JSON editor (convenient for use in conjunction with scrapy or any similar tools). Presets selective export/import.
- Quick preview of the data currently selected.
- Support for
::text/::attr()css pseudo elements andhas-class()xpath function. - Toggling JavaScript for the tab currently working on.
Planned features: nested selectors, more template testing and possibly actual extraction capabilities. See all: TODO.
- This was first intended as a bookmarklet but due to various limitations bookmarklet mode has been dropped. You can still check out outdated but somewhat working version at this page.
npm install
npm run build
# this will create ./dist/extension folder
# which you can give to chrome as an unpacked extension
# or to firefox as a temporary extension in about:debugging
Icon credits to: Freepik from www.flaticon.com