Webscraping with asyncio
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The document discusses using asyncio to perform asynchronous web scraping in Python. It begins with an overview of common Python web scraping tools like Requests, BeautifulSoup, Scrapy. It then covers key concepts of asyncio like event loops, coroutines, tasks and futures. It provides examples of building an asynchronous web crawler and downloader using these concepts. Finally, it discusses alternatives to asyncio for asynchronous programming like ThreadPoolExecutor and ProcessPoolExecutor.
![Coroutines in event loop
#!/usr/local/bin/python3.5
import asyncio
import aiohttp
async def get_page(url):
response = await aiohttp.request('GET', url)
body = await response.read()
print(body)
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.wait([get_page('http://python.org'),
get_page('http://pycon.org')]))](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/webscrapingasyncio1-161106134948/85/Webscraping-with-asyncio-44-320.jpg)
![Async Web crawler
import asyncio
import random
@asyncio.coroutine
def get_url(url):
wait_time = random.randint(1, 4)
yield from asyncio.sleep(wait_time)
print('Done: URL {} took {}s to get!'.format(url, wait_time))
return url, wait_time
@asyncio.coroutine
def process_results_as_come_in():
coroutines = [get_url(url) for url in ['URL1', 'URL2', 'URL3']]
for coroutine in asyncio.as_completed(coroutines):
url, wait_time = yield from coroutine
print('Coroutine for {} is done'.format(url))
def main():
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
print(“Process results as they come in:")
loop.run_until_complete(process_results_as_come_in())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
asyncio.as_completed](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/webscrapingasyncio1-161106134948/85/Webscraping-with-asyncio-60-320.jpg)
![Async Web crawler
import asyncio
import random
@asyncio.coroutine
def get_url(url):
wait_time = random.randint(1, 4)
yield from asyncio.sleep(wait_time)
print('Done: URL {} took {}s to get!'.format(url, wait_time))
return url, wait_time
@asyncio.coroutine
def process_once_everything_ready():
coroutines = [get_url(url) for url in ['URL1', 'URL2', 'URL3']]
results = yield from asyncio.gather(*coroutines)
print(results)
def main():
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
print(“Process results once they are all ready:")
loop.run_until_complete(process_once_everything_ready())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
asyncio.gather](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/webscrapingasyncio1-161106134948/85/Webscraping-with-asyncio-62-320.jpg)
![Async Web crawler
import asyncio
import random
@asyncio.coroutine
def get_url(url):
wait_time = random.randint(1, 4)
yield from asyncio.sleep(wait_time)
print('Done: URL {} took {}s to get!'.format(url, wait_time))
return url, wait_time
@asyncio.coroutine
def process_ensure_future():
tasks= [asyncio.ensure_future(get_url(url) )for url in ['URL1',
'URL2', 'URL3']]
results = yield from asyncio.wait(tasks)
print(results)
def main():
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
print(“Process ensure future:")
loop.run_until_complete(process_ensure_future())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
asyncio.ensure_future](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/webscrapingasyncio1-161106134948/85/Webscraping-with-asyncio-64-320.jpg)
Webscraping with asyncio
- 1. Webscraping with Asyncio José Manuel Ortega @jmortegac
- 5. Agenda ▶ Webscraping python tools ▶ Requests vs aiohttp ▶ Introduction to asyncio ▶ Async client/server ▶ Building a webcrawler with asyncio ▶ Alternatives to asyncio
- 6. Webscraping
- 7. Python tools ➢ Requests ➢ Beautiful Soup 4 ➢ Pyquery ➢ Webscraping ➢ Scrapy
- 8. Python tools ➢ Mechanize ➢ Robobrowser ➢ Selenium
- 10. Web scraping with Python 1. Download webpage with HTTP module(requests,urllib,aiohttp) 2. Parse the page with BeautifulSoup/lxml 3. Select elements with Regular expressions,XPath or css selectors 4. Store results in a database,csv,json
- 11. BeautifulSoup
- 12. BeautifulSoup ▶ soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc,’html.parser’) ▶ Print all: print(soup.prettify()) ▶ Print text: print(soup.get_text()) from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
- 13. BeautifulSoup functions ▪ find_all(‘a’)→Returns all links ▪ find(‘title’)→Returns the first element <title> ▪ get(‘href’)→Returns the attribute href value ▪ (element).text → Returns the text inside an element for link in soup.find_all('a'): print(link.get('href'))
- 19. PyQuery
- 20. PyQuery
- 21. PyQuery output
- 22. Spiders /crawlers ▶ A Web crawler is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing. A Web crawler may also be called a Web spider. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler
- 25. Scrapy ▶ Uses a mechanism based on XPath expressions called Xpath Selectors. ▶ Uses Parser LXML to find elements ▶ Twisted for asynchronous operations
- 26. Scrapy advantages ▶ Faster than mechanize because it uses twisted for asynchronous operations. ▶ Scrapy has better support for html parsing. ▶ Scrapy has better support for unicode characters, redirections, gzipped responses, encodings. ▶ You can export the extracted data directly to JSON,XML and CSV.
- 27. Export data ▶ scrapy crawl <spider_name> ▶ $ scrapy crawl <spider_name> -o items.json -t json ▶ $ scrapy crawl <spider_name> -o items.csv -t csv ▶ $ scrapy crawl <spider_name> -o items.xml -t xml ▶
- 29. The concurrency problem ▶ Different approaches: ▶ Multiple processes ▶ Threads ▶ Separate distributed machines ▶ Asynchronous programming(event loop)
- 30. Requests problems ▶ Requests operations are blocking the main thread ▶ It pauses until operation completed ▶ We need one thread for each request if we want non-blocking operations
- 31. Threads problems ▶ Get Overhead ▶ Stack size ▶ Context changes ▶ Synchronization
- 32. Solution ▶NOT USE THREADS ▶USE ONE THREAD ▶+ EVENT LOOP
- 33. New concepts ▶ Event loop ▶ Async ▶ Await ▶ Futures ▶ Coroutines ▶ Tasks ▶ Executors
- 34. Event loop implementations ▶ Asyncio ▶ https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/asyncio.html ▶ Tornado web server ▶ http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable ▶ Twisted ▶ https://twistedmatrix.com ▶ Gevent ▶ http://www.gevent.org
- 35. Asyncio def.
- 36. Asyncio ▶ Python >=3.3 ▶ Event-loop framework ▶ I/O Asynchronous ▶ Non-blocking approach with sockets ▶ All requests in one thread ▶ Event-driven switching ▶ aio-http module for make requests asynchronously
- 37. Asyncio ▶ Interoperatibility with other frameworks
- 38. Requests vs aiohttp #!/usr/local/bin/python3.5 import asyncio from aiohttp import ClientSession async def hello(): async with ClientSession() as session: async with session.get("http://httpbin.org/headers") as response: response = await response.read() print(response) loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() loop.run_until_complete(hello()) import requests def hello() return requests.get("http://httpbin.org/get") print(hello())
- 39. Event Loop ▶ An event loop allow us to write asynchronous code using callbacks or coroutines. ▶ Event loop function like task switcher,just the way operating systems switch between active tasks on the CPU. ▶ The idea is that we have an event loop running until all tasks scheduled are completed. ▶ Features and tasks are created through the event loop.
- 40. Event Loop ▶ An event loop is used to orchestrate the execution of the coroutines. ▶ asyncio.get_event_loop() ▶ asyncio.run_until_complete(coroutines,futures) ▶ asyncio.run_forever() ▶ asyncio.stop()
- 42. Coroutines ▶ Coroutines are functions that allow for multitasking without requiring multiple threads or processes. ▶ Coroutines are like functions, but they can be suspended or resumed at certain points in the code. ▶ Coroutines allow write asynchronous code that combines the efficiency of callbacks with the classic good looks of multithreaded.
- 43. Coroutines 3.4 vs 3.5 import asyncio @asyncio.coroutine def fetch(self, url): response = yield from self.session.get(url) body = yield from response.read() import asyncio async def fetch(self, url): response = await self.session.get(url) body = await response.read()
- 44. Coroutines in event loop #!/usr/local/bin/python3.5 import asyncio import aiohttp async def get_page(url): response = await aiohttp.request('GET', url) body = await response.read() print(body) loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.wait([get_page('http://python.org'), get_page('http://pycon.org')]))
- 45. Requests in event loop async def getpage_with_requests(url): return await loop.run_in_executor(None,requests.get,url) #methods equivalents async def getpage_with_aiohttp(url): with aitohttp.ClientSession() as session: async with session.get(url) as response: return await response.read()
- 46. Tasks ▶ The asyncio.Task class is a subclass of asyncio.Future to encapsulate and manage coroutines. ▶ Allow independently running tasks to run concurrently with other tasks on the same event loop. ▶ When a coroutine is wrapped in a task, it connects the task to the event loop.
- 47. Tasks
- 48. Tasks
- 49. Tasks
- 50. Tasks execution
- 51. Futures ▶ To manage an object Future in Asyncio, we must declare the following: ▶ import asyncio ▶ future = asyncio.Future() ▶ https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio -task.html#future ▶ https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurr ent.futures.html
- 52. Futures ▶ The asyncio.Future class is essentially a promise of a result. ▶ A Future will returns the results when they are available, and once it receives results, it will pass them along to all the registered callbacks. ▶ Each future is a task to be executed in the event loop
- 53. Futures
- 54. Semaphores ▶ Adding synchronization ▶ Limiting number of concurrent requests. ▶ The argument indicates the number of simultaneous requests we want to allow. ▶ sem = asyncio.Semaphore(5) with (await sem): page = await get(url, compress=True)
- 55. Async Client /server ▶ asyncio.start_server ▶ server = asyncio.start_server(handle_connection,host=HOST,port=PORT)
- 56. Async Client /server ▶ asyncio.open_connection
- 59. Async Web crawler ▶ Send asynchronous requests to all the links on a web page and add the responses to a queue to be processed as we go. ▶ Coroutines allow running independent tasks and processing their results in 3 ways: ▶ Using asyncio.as_completed →by processing the results as they come. ▶ Using asyncio.gather→ only once they have all finished loading. ▶ Using asyncio.ensure_future
- 60. Async Web crawler import asyncio import random @asyncio.coroutine def get_url(url): wait_time = random.randint(1, 4) yield from asyncio.sleep(wait_time) print('Done: URL {} took {}s to get!'.format(url, wait_time)) return url, wait_time @asyncio.coroutine def process_results_as_come_in(): coroutines = [get_url(url) for url in ['URL1', 'URL2', 'URL3']] for coroutine in asyncio.as_completed(coroutines): url, wait_time = yield from coroutine print('Coroutine for {} is done'.format(url)) def main(): loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() print(“Process results as they come in:") loop.run_until_complete(process_results_as_come_in()) if __name__ == '__main__': main() asyncio.as_completed
- 61. Async Web crawler execution
- 62. Async Web crawler import asyncio import random @asyncio.coroutine def get_url(url): wait_time = random.randint(1, 4) yield from asyncio.sleep(wait_time) print('Done: URL {} took {}s to get!'.format(url, wait_time)) return url, wait_time @asyncio.coroutine def process_once_everything_ready(): coroutines = [get_url(url) for url in ['URL1', 'URL2', 'URL3']] results = yield from asyncio.gather(*coroutines) print(results) def main(): loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() print(“Process results once they are all ready:") loop.run_until_complete(process_once_everything_ready()) if __name__ == '__main__': main() asyncio.gather
- 63. asyncio.gather From Python documentation, this is what asyncio.gather does: asyncio.gather(*coros_or_futures, loop=None, return_exceptions=False) Return a future aggregating results from the given coroutine objects or futures. All futures must share the same event loop. If all the tasks are done successfully, the returned future’s result is the list of results (in the order of the original sequence, not necessarily the order of results arrival). If return_exceptions is True, exceptions in the tasks are treated the same as successful results, and gathered in the result list; otherwise, the first raised exception will be immediately propagated to the returned future.
- 64. Async Web crawler import asyncio import random @asyncio.coroutine def get_url(url): wait_time = random.randint(1, 4) yield from asyncio.sleep(wait_time) print('Done: URL {} took {}s to get!'.format(url, wait_time)) return url, wait_time @asyncio.coroutine def process_ensure_future(): tasks= [asyncio.ensure_future(get_url(url) )for url in ['URL1', 'URL2', 'URL3']] results = yield from asyncio.wait(tasks) print(results) def main(): loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() print(“Process ensure future:") loop.run_until_complete(process_ensure_future()) if __name__ == '__main__': main() asyncio.ensure_future
- 65. Async Web crawler execution
- 67. Async Web downloader faster
- 68. Async Web downloader ▶ With get_partial_content ▶ With download_coroutine
- 69. Async Extracting links with r.e
- 70. Async Extracting links with bs4
- 71. Async Extracting links execution ▶ With bs4 ▶ With regex
- 72. Alternatives to asyncio ▶ ThreadPoolExecutor ▶ https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/concurrent.futures.html#concurrent.fut ures.ThreadPoolExecutor ▶ ProcessPoolExecutor ▶ https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/concurrent.futures.html#concur rent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor ▶ Parallel python ▶ http://www.parallelpython.com
- 73. Parallel python ▶ SMP(symmetric multiprocessing) architecture with multiple cores in the same machine ▶ Distribute tasks in multiple machines ▶ Cluster
- 75. References ▶ http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup ▶ http://scrapy.org ▶ http://docs.webscraping.com ▶ https://github.com/KeepSafe/aiohttp ▶ http://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ ▶ https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/asyncio.html ▶ https://github.com/REMitchell/python-scraping
- 76. Books
- 77. Books