Installation

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The easiest way to install Flyscrape is to use the following command. Note: This only works on macOS, Linux and WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

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curl -fsSL https://flyscrape.com/install | bash

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Alternative 1: Homebrew (macOS) -

If you are on macOS, you can install Flyscrape via Homebrew.

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brew install flyscrape

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Otherwise you can download and install Flyscrape by using one of the pre-compiled binaries.

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Whether you are on macOS, Linux or Windows you can download one of the following archives -to your local machine or visit the releases page on Github.

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Unpack -

Unpack the downloaded archive by double-clicking on it or using the command line:

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tar xf flyscrape_<os>_<arch>.tar.gz

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After unpacking you should find a folder with the same name as the archive, which contains the flyscrape executable. -Change directory into it using:

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cd flyscrape_<os>_<arch>/

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Install -

In order to make the flyscrape executable globally available, you can move it to either location in your $PATH variable. -A good default location for that is /usr/local/bin. So move it using the following command:

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mv flyscrape /usr/local/bin/flyscrape

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Verify -

From here on you should be able to run flyscrape from any directory on your machine. To verify you can run the following command. -If everything went to plan you should see Flyscrapes help text:

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flyscrape --help

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Terminal
flyscrape is a standalone and scriptable web scraper for efficiently extracting data from websites.
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-Usage:
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-    flyscrape <command> [arguments]
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-Commands:
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-    new    creates a sample scraping script
-    run    runs a scraping script
-    dev    watches and re-runs a scraping script

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Getting Started Full Example Script

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