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A powerful scraper plugin that provides interface for utlising html_parsers and css selectors in pawn.

Installing

Thanks to Southclaws,plugin installation is now much easier with sampctl

sampctl p install Sreyas-Sreelal/pawn-scraper

OR

  • Download suitable binary files from releases for your operating system
  • Add it your plugins folder
  • Add PawnScraper to server.cfg or PawnScraper.so (for linux)
  • Add pawnscraper.inc in includes folder

Building

  • Clone the repo

    git clone https://github.com/Sreyas-Sreelal/pawn-scraper.git

  • Use makefile to compile and test

    • Setup testing environment

      make setup

    • To build release version

      make release

    • Run tests

      make run

API

  • ParseHtmlDocument(document[])

    • Params
      • document[] - string of html document
    • Returns
      • Html document instance id
      • if failed to parse document INVALID_HTML_DOC is returned
    • Example Usage
       new Html:doc = ParseHtmlDocument("\
       	<!DOCTYPE html>\
       	<meta charset=\"utf-8\">\
       	<title>Hello, world!</title>\
       	<h1 class=\"foo\">Hello, <i>world!</i></h1>\
       	");
       ASSERT(doc != INVALID_HTML_DOC);
       DeleteHtml(doc);
  • ResponseParseHtml(Response:id)

    • Params
      • id - Http response id returned from HttpGet
    • Returns
      • Html document instance id
      • if failed to parse document INVALID_HTML_DOC is returned
    • Example Usage
       new Response:response = HttpGet("https://www.sa-mp.com");
       new Html:doc = ResponseParseHtml(response);
       ASSERT(doc != INVALID_HTML_DOC);
       DeleteHtml(doc);
  • HttpGet(url[],Header:headerid=INVALID_HEADER)

    • Params
      • url[] - Url of a website
      • header - id of header object created using CreateHeader
    • Returns
      • Response id if successful
      • if failed to INVALID_HTTP_RESPONSE is returned
    • Example Usage
      new Response:response = HttpGet("https://www.sa-mp.com");
      ASSERT(response != INVALID_HTTP_RESPONSE);
      DeleteResponse(response);
  • HttpGetThreaded(playerid,callback[],url[],Header:headerid=INVALID_HEADER)

    • Params

      • playerid - id of the player
      • callback[] - name of the callback function to handle the response.
      • url[] - Url of a website
      • header - id of header object created using CreateHeader
    • Example Usage

      HttpGetThreaded(0,"MyHandler","https://sa-mp.com");
      //********
      forward MyHandler(playerid,Response:responseid);
      public MyHandler(playerid,Response:responseid){
          ASSERT(responseid != INVALID_HTTP_RESPONSE);
          DeleteResponse(responseid);
      }
  • ParseSelector(string[])

    • Params
      • string[] - CSS selector
    • Returns
      • Selector instance id if successful
      • if failed to INVALID_SELECTOR is returned
    • Example Usage
      new Selector:selector = ParseSelector("h1 .foo");
      ASSERT(selector != INVALID_SELECTOR);
      DeleteSelector(selector);
  • CreateHeader(...)

    • Params
      • key,value pairs of String type
    • Returns
      • Header instance id if successful
      • if failed to INVALID_HEADER is returned
    • Example Usage
      new Header:header = CreateHeader(
          "User-Agent","Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36"
      );
      ASSERT(header != INVALID_HEADER);
      new Response:response = HttpGet("https://sa-mp.com/",header);
      ASSERT(response != INVALID_HTTP_RESPONSE);
      ASSERT(DeleteHeader(header) == 1);
  • GetNthElementName(Html:docid,Selector:selectorid,idx,string[],size = sizeof(string))

    • Params
      • docid - Html instance id
      • selectorid - CSS selector instance id
      • idx - the n'th occurence of element in the document (starts from 0)
      • string[] - element name is stored
      • size - sizeof string
    • Returns
      • 1 if successful
      • 0 if failed
    • Example Usage
      new Html:doc = ParseHtmlDocument("\
          <!DOCTYPE html>\
          <meta charset=\"utf-8\">\
          <title>Hello, world!</title>\
          <h1 class=\"foo\">Hello, <i>world!</i></h1>\
      ");
      ASSERT(doc != INVALID_HTML_DOC);
      
      new Selector:selector = ParseSelector("i");
      ASSERT(selector != INVALID_SELECTOR);
      
      new i= -1,element_name[10];
      while(GetNthElementName(doc,selector,++i,element_name)!=0){
          ASSERT(strcmp(element_name,"i") == 0);
      }
      
      DeleteSelector(selector);
      DeleteHtml(doc);
  • GetNthElementText(Html:docid,Selector:selectorid,idx,string[],size = sizeof(string))

    • Params
      • docid - Html instance id
      • selectorid - CSS selector instance id
      • idx - the n'th occurence of element in the document (starts from 0)
      • string[] - element name
      • size - sizeof string
    • Returns
      • 1 if successful
      • 0 if failed
    • Example Usage
      new Html:doc = ParseHtmlDocument("\
          <!DOCTYPE html>\
          <meta charset=\"utf-8\">\
          <title>Hello, world!</title>\
          <h1 class=\"foo\">Hello, <i>world!</i></h1>\
      ");
      ASSERT(doc != INVALID_HTML_DOC);
      
      new Selector:selector = ParseSelector("h1.foo");
      ASSERT(selector != INVALID_SELECTOR);
      
      new element_text[20];
      ASSERT(GetNthElementText(doc,selector,0,element_text) == 1);
      
      new check = strcmp(element_text,("Hello, world!"));
      ASSERT(check == 0);
      
      DeleteSelector(selector);
      DeleteHtml(doc);
  • GetNthElementAttrVal(Html:docid,Selector:selectorid,idx,attribute[],string[],size = sizeof(string))

    • Params
      • docid - Html instance id
      • selectorid - CSS selector instance id
      • idx - the n'th occurence of element in the document (starts from 0)
      • attribute[] - the attribute of element
      • string[] - element name
      • size - sizeof string
    • Returns
      • 1 if successful
      • 0 if failed
    • Example Usage
       new Html:doc = ParseHtmlDocument("\
       	<!DOCTYPE html>\
       	<meta charset=\"utf-8\">\
       	<title>Hello, world!</title>\
       	<h1 class=\"foo\">Hello, <i>world!</i></h1>\
       ");
       ASSERT(doc != INVALID_HTML_DOC);
       
       new Selector:selector = ParseSelector("h1");
       ASSERT(selector != INVALID_SELECTOR);
       
       new element_attribute[20];
       ASSERT(GetNthElementAttrVal(doc,selector,0,"class",element_attribute) == 1);
      
       new check = strcmp(element_attribute,("foo"));
       ASSERT(check == 0);
      
       DeleteSelector(selector);
       DeleteHtml(doc);
  • DeleteHtml(Html:id)

    • Params
      • id - html instance to be deleted
    • Returns
      • 1 if successful
      • 0 if failed
  • DeleteSelector(Selector:id)

    • Params
      • id - selector instance to be deleted
    • Returns
      • 1 if successful
      • 0 if failed
  • DeleteResponse(Html:id)

    • Params
      • id - response instance to be deleted
    • Returns
      • 1 if successful
      • 0 if failed
  • DeleteHeader(Header:id)

    • Params
      • id - header instance to be deleted
    • Returns
      • 1 if successful
      • 0 if failed

Usage

A small example to fetch all links in wiki.sa-mp.com

new Response:response = HttpGet("https://wiki.sa-mp.com");
if(response == INVALID_HTTP_RESPONSE){
	printf("HTTP ERROR");
	return;
}

new Html:html = ResponseParseHtml(response);
if(html == INVALID_HTML_DOC){
	DeleteResponse(response);
	return;
}

new Selector:selector = ParseSelector("a");
if(selector == INVALID_SELECTOR){
	DeleteResponse(response);
	DeleteHtml(html);
	return;
}

new str[500],i;
while(GetNthElementAttrVal(html,selector,i,"href",str)){
	printf("%s",str);
	++i;
}
//delete created objects after the usage..
DeleteHtml(html);
DeleteResponse(response);
DeleteSelector(selector);

The same above with threaded http call would be

HttpGetThreaded(0,"MyHandler","https://wiki.sa-mp.com");
//...
forward MyHandler(playerid,Response:responseid);
public MyHandler(playerid,Response:responseid)
{
	
	if(responseid == INVALID_HTTP_RESPONSE){
		printf("HTTP ERROR");
		return 0;
	}

	new Html:html = ResponseParseHtml(responseid);
	if(html == INVALID_HTML_DOC){
		DeleteResponse(response);
		return 0;
	}

	new Selector:selector = ParseSelector("a");
	if(selector == INVALID_SELECTOR){
		DeleteResponse(response);
		DeleteHtml(html);
		return 0;
	}

	new str[500],i;
	while(GetNthElementAttrVal(html,selector,i,"href",str)){
		printf("%s",str);
		++i;
	}

	DeleteHtml(html);
	Delete(response);
	DeleteSelector(selector);
	return 1;
}

More examples can be found in examples

Note

The plugin is in primary stage and more tests and features needed to be added.I'm open to any kind of contribution, just open a pull request if you have anything to improve or add new features.

Special thanks