Installation

Recommended +

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).

Terminal

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.

Terminal

brew install flyscrape

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

Alternative 2: Manual installation (all systems) +

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:

Terminal

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:

Terminal

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:

Terminal

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:

Terminal

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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