Toapi
Overview
Toapi give you the ability to make every web site provides APIs.
- v1.0.0 Documentation: http://www.toapi.org
- Awesome: https://github.com/toapi/awesome-toapi
- Organization: https://github.com/toapi
Features
- Automatic converting HTML web site to API service.
- Automatic caching every page of source site.
- Automatic caching every request.
- Support merging multiple web sites into one API service.
Get Started
Installation
$ pip install toapi
Usage
create app.py and copy the code:
from flask import request
from htmlparsing import Attr, Text
from toapi import Api, Item
api = Api()
@api.site('https://news.ycombinator.com')
@api.list('.athing')
@api.route('/posts?page={page}', '/news?p={page}')
@api.route('/posts', '/news?p=1')
class Post(Item):
url = Attr('.storylink', 'href')
title = Text('.storylink')
@api.site('https://news.ycombinator.com')
@api.route('/posts?page={page}', '/news?p={page}')
@api.route('/posts', '/news?p=1')
class Page(Item):
next_page = Attr('.morelink', 'href')
def clean_next_page(self, value):
return api.convert_string('/' + value, '/news?p={page}', request.host_url.strip('/') + '/posts?page={page}')
api.run(debug=True, host='0.0.0.0', port=5000)run python app.py
then open your browser and visit http://127.0.0.1:5000/posts?page=1
you will get the result like:
{
"Page": {
"next_page": "http://127.0.0.1:5000/posts?page=2"
},
"Post": [
{
"title": "Mathematicians Crack the Cursed Curve",
"url": "https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-crack-the-cursed-curve-20171207/"
},
{
"title": "Stuffing a Tesla Drivetrain into a 1981 Honda Accord",
"url": "https://jalopnik.com/this-glorious-madman-stuffed-a-p85-tesla-drivetrain-int-1823461909"
}
]
}Contributing
Write code and test code and pull request.
