Extractors

Different extractor types

There are different types of extractors, that provide output in different formats:

• TabularExtractor for tables.
• ListExtractor for separate lists of values.
• ItemExtractor for specific values.

By default a tabular extractor is used.

Tabular extractor

from parsera import Parsera

scraper = Parsera(extractor=Parsera.ExtractorType.TABULAR)

The tabular extractor is used to find rows of tabular data and has output of the form:

[
    {"name": "name1", "price": "100"},
    {"name": "name2", "price": "150"},
    {"name": "name3", "price": "300"},
]

List extractor

from parsera import Parsera

scraper = Parsera(extractor=Parsera.ExtractorType.LIST)

The list extractor is used to find lists of different values and has output of the form:

{
    "name": ["name1", "name2", "name3"],
    "price": ["100", "150", "300"]
}

Item extractor

from parsera import Parsera

scraper = Parsera(extractor=Parsera.ExtractorType.ITEM)

The item extractor is used to get singular items from a page like a title or price and has output of the form:

{
    "name": "name1",
    "price": "100"
}