Web Scraper

Web Scraper

Four scripts, zero API keys. All output is JSON by default.

Dependencies: requests, beautifulsoup4, playwright (with Chromium). Optional: pdfplumber or PyPDF2 for PDF text extraction.

Install: pip install requests beautifulsoup4 playwright && playwright install chromium

1. Search the Web

python3 scripts/google_search.py "query" --pages N --engine ENGINE

• --engine — duckduckgo (default), brave, or google
• Returns [{title, url, snippet}, ...]

2. Read a Page (one-shot)

python3 scripts/read_page.py "https://url" [--max-chars N] [--visible] [--format json|markdown|text] [--no-dismiss]

• --format — json (default), markdown, or text
• Auto-dismisses cookie consent banners (skip with --no-dismiss)

3. Persistent Browser Session

python3 scripts/browser_session.py open "https://url"              # Open + extract
python3 scripts/browser_session.py navigate "https://other"        # Go to new URL
python3 scripts/browser_session.py extract [--format FMT]          # Re-read page
python3 scripts/browser_session.py screenshot [path] [--full]      # Save screenshot
python3 scripts/browser_session.py click "Submit"                  # Click by text/selector
python3 scripts/browser_session.py search "keyword"                # Search text in page
python3 scripts/browser_session.py tab new "https://url"           # Open new tab
python3 scripts/browser_session.py tab list                        # List all tabs
python3 scripts/browser_session.py tab switch 1                    # Switch to tab index
python3 scripts/browser_session.py tab close [index]               # Close tab
python3 scripts/browser_session.py dismiss-cookies                 # Manually dismiss cookies
python3 scripts/browser_session.py close                           # Close browser

• Cookie consent auto-dismissed on open/navigate
• Multiple tabs supported — open, switch, close independently
• Search returns matching lines with line numbers
• Extract supports json/markdown/text output

4. Download Files

python3 scripts/download_file.py "https://example.com/doc.pdf" [--output DIR] [--filename NAME]

• Auto-detects filename from URL/headers
• PDFs: extracts text if pdfplumber/PyPDF2 installed
• Returns {status, path, filename, size_bytes, content_type, extracted_text}