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DOM Traversing and Scraping using GraphQL
https://github.com/syrusakbary/gdom

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DOM Traversing and Scraping using GraphQL

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# GDOM

GDOM is the next generation of web-parsing, powered by `GraphQL`
syntax and the [Graphene framework](http://graphene-python.org).

Install it typing in your console:

```bash
pip install gdom
```

**DEMO**: [Try GDOM online](http://gdom.graphene-python.org/)

## Usage

You can either do `gdom --test` to start a test server for testing
queries or

```bash
gdom QUERY_FILE
```

This command will write in the standard output (or other output if specified
via `--output`) the resulting JSON.

Your `QUERY_FILE` could look similar to this:

```graphql
{
page(url:"http://news.ycombinator.com") {
items: query(selector:"tr.athing") {
rank: text(selector:"td span.rank")
title: text(selector:"td.title a")
sitebit: text(selector:"span.comhead a")
url: attr(selector:"td.title a", name:"href")
attrs: next {
score: text(selector:"span.score")
user: text(selector:"a:eq(0)")
comments: text(selector:"a:eq(2)")
}
}
}
}
```

## Advanced usage

If you want to generalize your gdom query to any page, just rewrite your
query file adding the `$page` var. So should look to something like
this:

```graphql
query ($page: String) {
page(url:$page) {
# ...
}
}
```

And then, query it like:

```bash
gdom QUERY_FILE http://news.ycombinator.com
```