Spidy Quotes

This is an example site for web scraping tutorials.

Installation

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

How to run

python spidyquotes.py

To run in development mode, use the --debug flag.

Endpoints

• /: well structured HTML with microdata markup and pagination buttons.
• /scroll: same as /, but with infinite scrolling via AJAX calls.
• /js: the content is generated by JavaScript code.
• /js-delayed/?delay=1000: same as /js but with a delay. Default delay is 10000 ms.
• /tableful: a messed-up layout based on tables.
• /login: login page with CSRF token (any user/passwd works). The website shows GoodReads links for authenticated users.
• /viewState: an AJAX-based filter form that simulates ViewStates behavior.
• /random: shows a single random quote.

Hosted version

There is a hosted version available at http://quotes.toscrape.com.