Simple, easy-to-use scraper to scrape data from WordPress JSON API

• Support storing crawled documents as MongoDB documents / JSON files
• Auto retry upon errors

• Python 3.7+

pip install -r requirements.txt

Just run crawl.py with the sites URL supplied:

python3 crawl.py https://your.website.here

This will crawl the site using DefaultCrawlSession, which attempts to crawl all posts, categories & tags from the site.

The crawled JSON files will be stored in the directory ./data/<domain-name>.

Most of the time, This will suffice when scraping sites that are:

1. not required to sign in
2. JSON API paths not blocked

For advanced usage and customizations you may want to look at wpscraper/session.py for actual crawling procedures, and make your own CrawlSession.

• Rewrite/Refactor
• MongoDB Connector
• Async session
• Authentication Module
• Cloudflare circumvention
• Configurable retry policies
• Full WPv2 API resources support