Mastino

A Golang library for scraping web page. It can be used with any language ( php, java, c# ... ) since Mastino uses json as input/output interchange format.

Usage

run commands

git clone https://github.com/angeloLed/mastino.git mastino
cd mastino
go get -u

You can also run Mastino like this:

#compiled
./mastino "{\"url\":\"https://blog.golang.org/error-handling-and-go\", \"tags\": [{\"type\": \"div\",\"attributes\": [{\"key\": \"class\",\"value\": \"code\"}]}]}"

# or not compiled
go run main.go "{\"url\":\"https://blog.golang.org/error-handling-and-go\", \"tags\": [{\"type\": \"div\",\"attributes\": [{\"key\": \"class\",\"value\": \"code\"}]}]}"

Manifest configuration Example of manifest configuration:

{
	"url": "https://google.com",
	"tags": [{
			"type": "a",
			"attributes": [{
				"key": "class",
				"value": "bg1"
			}, {
				"type": "span"
			}]
		},
		{
			"type": "div",
			"attributes": [{
			    "key": "css"
	        }]
    }]
}

key	type	description
url	string	target url
tags	array	each tag that Mastino must try to bite. The key contains all the matching rules. Contains attributes type
type	string	DOM element
attributes	array	each attributes of tag to verify. Contais key value
key	string	the key of attribute
value	string	the value of attribute

Possibile matching result

• tag is specified without attribute
• attribute key is specified without value
• attribute key is specified and value match with value of DOM

Json Output Mastino returns a JSON with the same structure of the provided input JSON. Each match found is returned us a matches entry inside tags element. matches is an array of strings ( the DOM ).

{
	"url": "https://blog.golang.org/error-handling-and-go",
	"tags": [{
		"type": "div",
		"attributes": [{
			"key": "class",
			"value": "code"
		}],
		"matches": ["<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">", "<div class=\"code\">"]
	}],
	"error": false,
	"message": ""
}

Using Mastino with Other languages PHP:

$jsonManifest = "{\"url\":\"https://blog.golang.org/error-handling-and-go\", \"tags\": [{\"type\": \"div\",\"attributes\": [{\"key\": \"class\",\"value\": \"code\"}]}]}";
$output = shell_exec("/path/to/mastino {$jsonManifest}");
var_dump(json_decode($output, true));

C# :

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;

class Runshell
{
  static void Main()
  {
    ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
    psi.FileName = "/path/to/mastino";
    psi.UseShellExecute = false;
    psi.RedirectStandardOutput = true;

    psi.Arguments = "{\"url\":\"https://blog.golang.org/error-handling-and-go\", \"tags\": [{\"type\": \"div\",\"attributes\": [{\"key\": \"class\",\"value\": \"code\"}]}]}";
    Process p = Process.Start(psi);
    string strOutput = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
    p.WaitForExit();
    Console.WriteLine(strOutput);
  }
}

Nodejs:

var sys = require('sys')
var exec = require('child_process').exec;
function puts(error, stdout, stderr) { sys.puts(stdout) }
var manifest = "{\"url\":\"https://blog.golang.org/error-handling-and-go\", \"tags\": [{\"type\": \"div\",\"attributes\": [{\"key\": \"class\",\"value\": \"code\"}]}]}";
exec("/path/to/mastino " + manifest, puts);

Golang:

package main

import "os/exec"

func main() {
    app := "/path/to/mastino"

    manifest := "{\"url\":\"https://blog.golang.org/error-handling-and-go\", \"tags\": [{\"type\": \"div\",\"attributes\": [{\"key\": \"class\",\"value\": \"code\"}]}]}"

    cmd := exec.Command(app, manifest, nil, nil, nil)
    stdout, err := cmd.Output()

    if err != nil {
        println(err.Error())
        return
    }

    print(string(stdout))
}

License

MIT