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Scraping with Geb

Scraping with Geb

GR8Conf Eu 2016

Sergio del Amo

June 02, 2016

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  1. WHAT CAN YOU DO? ▸ PRICE-MONITORING WEBBOTS ▸ IMAGE-CAPTURING WEBBOTS

    ▸ LINK VERIFICATION WEBBOTS ▸ WEBBOTS THAT SEND EMAIL ▸ WEBBOTS THAT CONVERT A WEBSITE IN AN API ▸ SNIPERS
  2. Define the interesting parts of your pages in a concise,

    maintanable and extensible manner GEB PAGES
  3. GEB EXAMPLE GRADLE HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/GEB/GEB-EXAMPLE-GRADLE The following commands will launch the

    tests with the individual browsers: ./gradlew chromeTest ./gradlew firefoxTest ./gradlew phantomJsTest To run with all, you can run: ./gradlew test MARCIN ERDMANN
  4. SPLIT LOAD BETWEEN WEBBOTS 1 2 5 3 4 11

    12 15 13 14 21 22 25 23 24 31 32 35 33 34 41 42 45 43 44 6 7 10 8 9 16 17 20 18 19 26 27 30 28 29 36 37 40 38 39 46 47 50 48 49 def ids = 1..50 def webbotIndex = 3 def webbotsInParallel = 6 int total = ids.size() def sublistsSize = (total / webbotsInParallel) as int def s = ids.collate(sublistsSize)[webbotIndex]
  5. STEALTH MEANS SIMULATING HUMAN PATTERNS ▸ BE KIND TO YOUR

    RESOURCES ▸ RUN YOUR WEBBOTS DURING BUSY HOURS ▸ DON’T RUN YOUR WEBBOTS AT THE SAME TIME EACH DAY ▸ DON’T RUN YOUR WEBBOT ON HOLIDAYS AND WEEKENDS ▸ USE RANDOM, INTRA-FETCH DELAYS
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