Pythonista URL Scraper on iOS

Question

I’ve been attempting to compile a script to give me table data from a few xpaths from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ to display info from just 4 of the hundreds of datasets.

The issue I’ve run into after playing around with various scripts for hours and hours and doing web searches is that pythonista iOS won’t allow me to utilize pandas, beautiful soup, pyto, or a host of other parsers.

I’m admittedly a noob but it seems like using the basic installed libraries for python 2.7 or 3.2 should be able to simply display Xpath data with a few lines of code with which I will eventually migrate some premade code in iOS shortcuts app to make it a widget for my Apple Watch and/or iPhone.

All this to say... has anyone had success scraping using iOS Pythonista app? If so, any pointers for an angle of attack??

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 25 '20 at 23:12

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Pythonista is limited by the fact that you must use pure python libraries. This is no fault of the developer and is a restriction set by Apple. I recommend installing StaSh and finding a pure python scraping library that you can install through pip. A quick google search brought up this one which you might find useful.

answered Jun 25 '20 at 23:12

kalkronline

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Thank you. That’s very interesting. I will take that approach! – Dalcassian Jun 27 '20 at 00:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 23 '20 at 07:53

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As of December 2020, Pythonista has the requests and bs4 modules built in.

answered Dec 23 '20 at 07:53

Wayland Chin

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a link to the release notes would be nice – Linh Nguyen Dec 23 '20 at 08:42

Pythonista URL Scraper on iOS

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