tap-beautifulsoup - Meltano Hub

BeautifulSoup

tap-beautifulsoup (meltanolabs variant)🥈

Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files.

The tap-beautifulsoup extractor pulls data from BeautifulSoup that can then be sent to a destination using a loader.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

If you haven't already, follow the initial steps of the Getting Started guide:

Installation and configuration

Add the tap-beautifulsoup extractor to your project using
```
meltano add
```
:

meltano add extractor tap-beautifulsoup

Configure the tap-beautifulsoup settings using

meltano config

:

meltano config tap-beautifulsoup set --interactive

Test that extractor settings are valid using

meltano config

:

meltano config tap-beautifulsoup test

Next steps

Follow the remaining steps of the Getting Started guide:

If you run into any issues, learn how to get help.

Capabilities

The current capabilities for tap-beautifulsoup may have been automatically set when originally added to the Hub. Please review the capabilities when using this extractor. If you find they are out of date, please consider updating them by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the capabilities for this extractor.

This plugin has the following capabilities:

about
catalog
discover
schema-flattening
state
stream-maps

You can override these capabilities or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the capabilities key.

Settings

The tap-beautifulsoup settings that are known to Meltano are documented below. To quickly find the setting you're looking for, click on any setting name from the list:

download_recursively
find_all_kwargs
output_folder
parser
site_url
source_name

Expand To Show SDK Settings

flattening_enabled
flattening_max_depth
stream_map_config
stream_maps

You can also list these settings using

meltano config

with the list subcommand:

meltano config tap-beautifulsoup list

You can override these settings or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the settings key.

Please consider adding any settings you have defined locally to this definition on MeltanoHub by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the settings for this plugin.

Download Recursively (download_recursively)

Environment variable: TAP_BEAUTIFULSOUP_DOWNLOAD_RECURSIVELY
Default Value: true

Attempt to download all pages recursively into the output directory prior to parsing files. Set this to False if you've previously run wget -r -A. Html https://sdk.meltano.com/en/latest/

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-beautifulsoup set download_recursively [value]

Find All Kwargs (find_all_kwargs)

Environment variable: TAP_BEAUTIFULSOUP_FIND_ALL_KWARGS
Default Value: {}

This dict contains all the kwargs that should be passed to the find_all call in order to extract text from the pages.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-beautifulsoup set find_all_kwargs [value]

Output Folder (output_folder)

Environment variable: TAP_BEAUTIFULSOUP_OUTPUT_FOLDER
Default Value: output

The file path of where to write the intermediate downloaded HTML files to.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-beautifulsoup set output_folder [value]

Parser (parser)

Environment variable: TAP_BEAUTIFULSOUP_PARSER
Default Value: html.parser

The BeautifulSoup parser to use.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-beautifulsoup set parser [value]

Site URL (site_url)

Environment variable: TAP_BEAUTIFULSOUP_SITE_URL

The site you'd like to scrape. The tap will download all pages recursively into the output directory prior to parsing files.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-beautifulsoup set site_url [value]

Source Name (source_name)

Environment variable: TAP_BEAUTIFULSOUP_SOURCE_NAME

The name of the source you're scraping. This will be used as the stream name.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-beautifulsoup set source_name [value]

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Flattening Enabled (flattening_enabled)

Environment variable: TAP_BEAUTIFULSOUP_FLATTENING_ENABLED

'True' to enable schema flattening and automatically expand nested properties.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-beautifulsoup set flattening_enabled [value]

Flattening Max Depth (flattening_max_depth)

Environment variable: TAP_BEAUTIFULSOUP_FLATTENING_MAX_DEPTH

The max depth to flatten schemas.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-beautifulsoup set flattening_max_depth [value]

Stream Map Config (stream_map_config)

Environment variable: TAP_BEAUTIFULSOUP_STREAM_MAP_CONFIG

User-defined config values to be used within map expressions.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-beautifulsoup set stream_map_config [value]

Stream Maps (stream_maps)

Environment variable: TAP_BEAUTIFULSOUP_STREAM_MAPS

Config object for stream maps capability. For more information check out Stream Maps.

Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-beautifulsoup set stream_maps [value]

Something missing?

This page is generated from a YAML file that you can contribute changes to.

Edit it on GitHub!

Looking for help?

If you're having trouble getting the tap-beautifulsoup extractor to work, look for an existing issue in its repository, file a new issue, or join the Meltano Slack community and ask for help in the

#plugins-general

channel.

Install

meltano add extractor tap-beautifulsoup

Maintenance Status

Repo

https://github.com/MeltanoLabs/tap-beautifulsoup

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