Odysseus

Odysseus is a web scraping library built on top of Playwright, designed to handle dynamic web pages and CAPTCHA challenges with ease.

Odysseus was renowned for his cunning and resourcefulness. This library employs cunning strategies to navigate through dynamic web content and extract desired information.

Highlights

• Dynamic Content Handling: Efficiently scrapes web pages with dynamic content rendered by JavaScript.
• Retry Mechanism: Automatically retries fetching content on failure, with configurable retry attempts.
• Configurable Delays: Allows setting custom delays for waiting after page loads.
• Logging Support: Integrates with custom logging mechanisms for debugging and monitoring.
• CAPTCHA Handling: Supports human-in-the-loop CAPTCHA handling for uninterrupted scraping.

Install

$ npm i @rpidanny/odysseys

Usage

Here's a basic example to get you started:

import { Quill } from '@rpidanny/quill'
import { Odysseus } from '@rpidanny/odysseus'

// Configuration object
const config: IConfig = {
  headless: false, // Runs browser in non-headless mode
  delay: 5000, // Wait for 5 seconds after page loads
  retry: 5, // Retry fetching content up to 5 times
  waitOnCaptcha: true, // Wait for user action when captcha is detected
}

// Optional logger
const logger = new Quill()

// Create an instance of Odysseus
const odysseus = new Odysseus(config, logger)

// Initialize odysseus
await odysseus.init()

async function fetchContent(url: string, delay: number) {
  try {
    const content = await odysseus.getContent(url, delay)
    console.log(content)
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Failed to fetch content:', error)
  }
}

// Each fetchContent opens a new tab so can be run concurrently
await Promise.all([
  fetchContent('https://www.tiktok.com/explore', 6_000),
  fetchContent('https://www.tiktok.com/explore', 6_000),
  fetchContent('https://www.tiktok.com/explore', 6_000),
])

await odysseus.close()

API Documentation

The API Docs can be found here.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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Feel free to contribute to the project or report issues on the GitHub repository. Happy scraping!