Abstraction: Simulating realistic human behavior (bezier curves, easing) through high-level composed actions.
Zero Config: Import and share scraper modules directly via Git, bypass NPM/Registry overhead.
Reusability: Actions and evaluators can be composed through slots to create more complex workflows.
Example import "modules/redfin/mod.kdl" repo="github.com/tadpolehq/community"
main {
new_page {
redfin.search text="=text"
wait_until
redfin.extract_from_card extract_to="addresses" {
address {
redfin.extract_address_from_card
}
}
}
}
Roadmap?
Planned for 0.2.0 Control Flow: Add maybe (effectively try/catch) and loop (while {}, do {})
DOMPick: Used to select elements by index
DOMFilter: Used to filter elements using evaluators
More Evaluators: Type casting, regex, exists
Root Slots: Support for top level dynamic placeholders
Error Reporting: More robust error reporting
Logging: More consistent logging from actions and add log action to global registry
0.3.0 Piping: Allowing different files to chain input/output.
Outputs: Complex output sinks to databases, s3, kafka, etc.
DAGs: Use directed acylic graphs to create complex crawling scenarios and parallel compute.
Github Repository: https://github.com/tadpolehq/tadpole