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PyScrappy: robust, all-in-one Python web scraping toolkit

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PyScrappy is a Python toolkit for web scraping that works out of the box. Point it at any URL and get structured data back — or use built-in scrapers for Wikipedia, IMDB, Yahoo Finance, news feeds, and more.

📖 Documentation: pyscrappy-documentation.vercel.app

Key features

  • Generic scraper — give it any URL, get back structured text, links, images, tables, and metadata

  • Auto-pagination — automatically follows "next page" links

  • JS rendering — optional Playwright backend for JavaScript-heavy sites

  • Custom selectors — pass CSS selectors to extract exactly what you need

  • 20+ built-in scrapers — Wikipedia, IMDB, stocks, news, GitHub, Hacker News, books, weather, Amazon/Newegg/IKEA, LinkedIn, YouTube, Uber Eats, and more

  • MCP server — expose the scrapers as tools for AI agents (Claude, Cursor, local LLMs, …)

  • Concurrent scrapingscrape_many / scrape_all run scrapes in parallel

  • Proxy & scraping-API support — route through a proxy or ScraperAPI/ScrapeOps for blocked sites

  • Clean API — every scraper returns a ScrapeResult with .to_dataframe() and .to_json()

  • Retry & rate-limiting — built-in exponential backoff and per-domain rate limiting

  • Type-safe — full type hints, py.typed marker

Related MCP server: webclaw

Installation

pip install pyscrappy

Optional extras:

# Browser support (for JS-rendered pages)
pip install 'pyscrappy[browser]'
playwright install chromium

# DataFrame support
pip install 'pyscrappy[dataframe]'

# MCP server (use PyScrappy's scrapers as AI-agent tools)
pip install 'pyscrappy[mcp]'

# Everything
pip install 'pyscrappy[all]'

Quick start

Scrape any URL (one-liner)

from pyscrappy import scrape

result = scrape("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping")
print(result.data[0]["metadata"]["title"])
print(result.data[0]["text"]["word_count"])

Custom CSS selectors

from pyscrappy import GenericScraper

with GenericScraper() as gs:
    result = gs.scrape(
        url="https://news.ycombinator.com",
        selectors={"title": ".titleline a", "score": ".score"},
    )
    for item in result.data:
        print(item["title"], item.get("score", ""))

Wikipedia

from pyscrappy import WikipediaScraper

with WikipediaScraper() as ws:
    result = ws.scrape(query="Python (programming language)", mode="summary")
    print(result.data[0]["text"])

Stock data

from pyscrappy import StockScraper

with StockScraper() as ss:
    result = ss.scrape(symbol="AAPL", mode="history", period="1mo")
    df = result.to_dataframe()
    print(df.head())

IMDB (via OMDb API)

IMDB's own pages are protected by an anti-bot challenge, so PyScrappy fetches IMDB data through the free OMDb API. Set an OMDb API key in the OMDB_API_KEY environment variable (or pass api_key=...).

from pyscrappy import IMDBScraper

with IMDBScraper() as scraper:      # reads OMDB_API_KEY from the environment
    # Search by title
    result = scraper.scrape(query="inception")
    # ...or look up a specific IMDB id
    result = scraper.scrape(query="tt1375666")
    df = result.to_dataframe()
    print(df[["title", "year", "rating", "genre"]])

News (RSS feeds)

from pyscrappy import NewsScraper

with NewsScraper() as ns:
    result = ns.scrape(feed_url="https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml")
    for article in result.data[:5]:
        print(article["title"])
from pyscrappy import ImageSearchScraper

with ImageSearchScraper() as iss:
    result = iss.scrape(query="golden retriever", max_images=10, download_to="./dogs")

Configuration

from pyscrappy import ScraperConfig, GenericScraper

config = ScraperConfig(
    timeout=20.0,            # request timeout in seconds
    max_retries=3,           # retry failed requests
    rate_limit=2.0,          # seconds between requests per domain
    proxy="http://...",      # proxy URL, or a list to rotate through
    scraper_api=None,        # route via a scraping-API service (see below)
    headless=True,           # browser runs headless
    render_js="auto",        # auto-detect if JS rendering is needed
    cache_ttl=0,             # response cache TTL in seconds (0 = disabled)
)

with GenericScraper(config) as gs:
    result = gs.scrape(url="https://example.com")

Proxies and blocked sites

Some sites (e.g. eBay, Instagram, Twitter/X, Spotify) block direct automated requests. PyScrappy supports two ways to get through them.

A proxy (or a rotating list) — applies to both the HTTP and browser backends:

from pyscrappy import ScraperConfig, AmazonScraper

# Single proxy
config = ScraperConfig(proxy="http://user:pass@host:port")

# Rotating list (one picked per request)
config = ScraperConfig(proxy=["http://p1:8080", "http://p2:8080"])

A scraping-API service (ScraperAPI, ScrapeOps, ScrapingBee) — routes requests through the service, which handles proxies and anti-bot challenges for you:

config = ScraperConfig(scraper_api={
    "provider": "scraperapi",   # or "scrapeops", "scrapingbee"
    "api_key": "YOUR_KEY",
    "render_js": True,           # optional
})

# Now any scraper works through the service, unchanged:
with AmazonScraper(config) as scraper:
    result = scraper.scrape(query="laptop")

This is the reliable way to use the scrapers marked "needs proxy" below.

Concurrent scraping

Scraping is I/O-bound, so running several scrapes at once parallelizes the network waits. scrape_many runs one scraper over many inputs; scrape_all runs a mix of scrapers together. Both preserve input order.

from pyscrappy import scrape_many, scrape_all, AmazonScraper, WikipediaScraper, NewsScraper

# One scraper, many queries, concurrently:
results = scrape_many(AmazonScraper, [{"query": "laptop"}, {"query": "phone"}])

# Different scrapers at once:
results = scrape_all([
    lambda: WikipediaScraper().scrape(query="Python"),
    lambda: NewsScraper().scrape(feed_url="https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml"),
])

Response caching

Set cache_ttl to a positive number of seconds to cache successful GET responses. Repeated requests for the same URL (and query params) within the TTL are served from cache, skipping both the network and the rate limiter. Caching is disabled by default (cache_ttl=0).

from pyscrappy import WikipediaScraper
from pyscrappy import ScraperConfig

config = ScraperConfig(cache_ttl=300)   # cache for 5 minutes

with WikipediaScraper(config) as ws:
    ws.scrape(query="Python")   # fetched over the network
    ws.scrape(query="Python")   # served from cache

The cache is in memory and shared across scraper instances in the same process (so it also speeds up repeated calls through the MCP server), and is cleared when the process exits. Call HttpClient.clear_cache() to empty it manually.

YouTube

from pyscrappy import YouTubeScraper

with YouTubeScraper() as scraper:
    result = scraper.scrape(query="python tutorial", max_results=10)
    for video in result.data:
        print(video["title"], video.get("views", ""))

SoundCloud

from pyscrappy import SoundCloudScraper

with SoundCloudScraper() as scraper:
    result = scraper.scrape(query="lo-fi beats", max_results=10)

E-Commerce (Amazon, Newegg, IKEA)

from pyscrappy import AmazonScraper, NeweggScraper, IKEAScraper

# Amazon — general marketplace
with AmazonScraper() as scraper:
    result = scraper.scrape(query="laptop", max_pages=2)

# Newegg — electronics / computer hardware
with NeweggScraper() as scraper:
    result = scraper.scrape(query="graphics card", max_pages=2)

# IKEA — furniture / home (uses IKEA's JSON search API).
# Prices and products are per-country: pass the store's country/lang.
with IKEAScraper(country="gb", lang="en") as scraper:   # or "us"/"en", "de"/"de", …
    result = scraper.scrape(query="desk", max_results=24)
    df = result.to_dataframe()

Food Delivery (Zomato, Uber Eats)

from pyscrappy import ZomatoScraper, UberEatsScraper

with ZomatoScraper() as scraper:
    result = scraper.scrape(city="bangalore", max_results=20)

# Uber Eats: restaurants by city (any country Uber Eats operates in),
# then the full menu of any restaurant. Pass the country's locale.
with UberEatsScraper(locale="gb") as scraper:
    result = scraper.scrape(city="London", max_results=30)
    store = result.data[0]
    menu = scraper.get_menu(store["url"])   # items with prices

Built-in scrapers

Every scraper that works without a proxy is also exposed as an MCP tool (last column).

Scraper

What it does

Browser?

MCP tool

GenericScraper

Scrape any URL with auto-extraction

Optional

scrape_url

Data / Research

WikipediaScraper

Articles, sections, infoboxes

No

scrape_wikipedia

IMDBScraper

Movie/TV info by title or id (via OMDb API; needs OMDB_API_KEY)

No

lookup_movie

StockScraper

Quotes, history, profiles (Yahoo Finance)

No

scrape_stock

NewsScraper

RSS/Atom feeds, article extraction

No

scrape_news

ImageSearchScraper

Image search + download

No

search_images

LinkedInJobsScraper

Public job listings

No

search_linkedin_jobs

GitHubScraper

Repository search (stars, language, …) via GitHub API

No

search_github

HackerNewsScraper

Story search (points, comments) via HN API

No

search_hackernews

OpenLibraryScraper

Book search (title, author, year) via Open Library

No

search_books

WeatherScraper

Current weather by place, via Open-Meteo (no key)

No

get_weather

CryptoScraper

Crypto prices / market cap via CoinGecko (no key)

No

get_crypto

CurrencyScraper

Currency exchange rates + conversion (no key)

No

convert_currency

DictionaryScraper

Word definitions, examples (Free Dictionary API)

No

define_word

E-Commerce

AmazonScraper

Product search

No

search_amazon

NeweggScraper

Electronics / computer hardware search

No

search_newegg

IKEAScraper

Furniture / home search, per-country prices (JSON API)

No

search_ikea

Social Media

YouTubeScraper

Video search, channel scraping

Optional

search_youtube

InstagramScraper

Profiles, hashtag posts (blocked; needs proxy)

Recommended

TwitterScraper

Tweet search (blocked; needs proxy)

Recommended

Music

SpotifyScraper

Track/playlist search (blocked; needs proxy)

Recommended

SoundCloudScraper

Track search

Optional

search_soundcloud

Food Delivery

ZomatoScraper

Restaurant listings by city

Recommended

scrape_zomato

UberEatsScraper

Restaurants by city + full menus (any Uber Eats country)

No

search_ubereats, get_ubereats_menu

MCP server (use PyScrappy from an AI agent)

PyScrappy ships an optional Model Context Protocol server, so an AI agent (e.g. Claude) can call PyScrappy's scrapers as tools and get structured web data back.

pip install 'pyscrappy[mcp]'

This installs a pyscrappy-mcp command (a stdio MCP server). You can also run it with python -m pyscrappy.mcp.

Register with Claude Code

claude mcp add pyscrappy pyscrappy-mcp

Register with Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json and restart the app:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pyscrappy": {
      "command": "pyscrappy-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tip: Claude Desktop does not inherit your shell PATH. If pyscrappy-mcp is not found, use the absolute path to the command (e.g. the one printed by which pyscrappy-mcp).

Available tools

Tool

Description

scrape_url

Scrape any URL — text, links, images, tables, metadata

scrape_wikipedia

Fetch a Wikipedia article (full / paragraphs / headers)

scrape_stock

Yahoo Finance quotes, history, and profiles

scrape_news

RSS/Atom feeds, auto-discovered site feeds, or a single article

search_images

Image search (returns URLs + metadata)

search_youtube

YouTube video search

search_linkedin_jobs

Public LinkedIn job listings

search_github

GitHub repository search (stars, language, …)

search_hackernews

Hacker News story search (points, comments)

search_books

Book search via Open Library (title, author, year)

get_weather

Current weather for a place (no key)

get_crypto

Cryptocurrency prices and market data (CoinGecko)

convert_currency

Exchange rates and currency conversion

define_word

Word definitions and examples

search_amazon

Amazon product search

search_newegg

Newegg electronics / computer hardware search

search_ikea

IKEA furniture / home search

search_soundcloud

SoundCloud track search (uses the browser backend)

lookup_movie

Movie/TV info from IMDB by title or id (via OMDb; needs OMDB_API_KEY)

scrape_zomato

Restaurant listings by city

search_ubereats

Uber Eats restaurants by city

get_ubereats_menu

An Uber Eats restaurant's full menu (from its store URL)

The lookup_movie tool needs a free OMDb API key. Pass it to the server through your MCP client config, e.g. for Claude Desktop:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pyscrappy": {
      "command": "pyscrappy-mcp",
      "env": { "OMDB_API_KEY": "your-key" }
    }
  }
}

Once registered, just ask the agent naturally, e.g. "use pyscrappy to get the latest headlines from bbc.co.uk and the AAPL stock quote."

Dependencies

Required: httpx, beautifulsoup4, lxml

Optional: playwright (JS rendering), pandas (DataFrames), mcp (MCP server)

License

MIT

Contributing

All contributions welcome. See Issues.

This package is for educational and research purposes.

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