A Basic Web Scraper in Go

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 09:30:00 +0000

A basic web scraper usually involves a few steps, fetching the content, querying it for the data you’re after and then sometimes, using that data to go and find more as a loop.

In our example below, we use a package called goquery to do most of the heavy lifting for us. This library will go further than Go’s standard library by allowing us to do both the first and second steps a bit easier. It uses NewDocument() to get the content, then Find() to query it.

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A Basic Web Scraper in Go