Grab has been made to:

• Extract data from web-site
• Work with web-API
• Automate human-like activity on web-site

Web-Resources:

Github project: source code and issue tracker:

http://github.com/lorien/grab

English mailing list:

http://groups.google.com/group/grab-users

English documentation:

http://docs.grablib.org/en/latetst/

Russian mailing list:

http://groups.google.com/group/python-grab

Russian documentation:

http://docs.grablib.org/ru/latetst/

Russian skype chat:

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Contribution to Grab project:

1. Write publication about the Grab on your blog or on some pupular discussion board like reddit or hacker news
2. Report a bug, describe details
3. Create new feature and submit pull-request
4. Hire me for web-scraping project getdata.pro
5. Just send money

Examples of projects using Grab

• github.com/gotlium/antigate
• github.com/ph20/globalsources_com_parser
• github.com/gotlium/django-proxylist
• github.com/alexey-grom/fl-grab
• github.com/alexey-grom/shoutcast
• github.com/istinspring/grab-default-project-example
• https://github.com/Enapiuz/MyWebScrapingLearning
• https://github.com/npi3pak/python-vk-scripts
• https://github.com/ladaradon/interview
• https://github.com/cupper/fanduel

Video Lessons

• Site scraping lessons: basic usage of Grab::Spider
• Site scraping lessons: how to scrape AJAX sites

Publications:

• Grab - the site scraping library [ru]
• Grab::Spider - site scraping framework [ru]
• How to use Grab::Spider to scrape web sites [ru]
• What is Grab::Spider? [ru]
• Wikibooks: Grab [ru]
• Grab - new interface to work with DOM of HTML documents [ru]

Development activity

• 08 January 19:25: Merge pull request #167 from matlex/patch-1
• 08 January 19:15: Update request_headers.rst
• 22 December 13:33: Merge pull request #165 from SpikeVlg/upstream
• 22 December 13:31: Merge pull request #166 from rblack/master
• 22 December 12:34: urllib3 transport proxy auth fix
• 15 December 15:48: Fixed issue #160
• 22 November 19:30: Bump version: 0.6.29 → 0.6.30
• 22 November 19:18: Fix processing of upload data in debug=True mode
• 22 November 19:17: Update default_project files
• 22 November 18:12: Debugging travis error

Talks in grab-users [en]

Talks in python-grab [ru]

• 07 January 22:26 : судьба grab.transport.kit
• 04 January 12:27 : Как остановить всех пауков при первой же ошибке?
• 01 January 20:01 : Не импортируется модуль grab( как исправить?
• 22 December 15:56 : Цитата: "Артём Буданов - НЕ работает! Grigoriy Petukhov - Вам не повезло..."
• 21 December 15:01 : пропускает часть href
• 17 December 10:43 : сервер не реагирует на пост аргументы
• 14 December 09:43 : VPS
• 12 December 20:12 : Grab на андроиде
• 12 December 15:18 : Паук жрёт 100% CPU
• 12 December 08:36 : пожертвование новичкам