Language Concepts

A scrapelect program is a sequence of statements that describes how to turn a web page into structured data. This description includes where the data is located on the web page (elements and selectors) and how to process that data using filters to get the structured output that you desire.

scrapelect is in beta, so it's possible that changes to the language on the dev branch may not be reflected yet in this book. The information should be correct for the latest released version (v0.3.2). If the documentation is incorrect or could be improved, consider filing an issue or pull request, as scrapelect is an open source project.