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I found the following snippets in your repository. I will now analyze these snippets and come up with a plan.
src/scrapeghost/normalizers.py
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• Create a new file named `normalizers.py` in the `src/scrapeghost/` directory.
• In this file, define a set of lambda functions for normalizing the raw unformatted data extracted by the language model. Each lambda function should take a piece of raw data as input and return the normalized data.
• These lambda functions will be used in the scraping process to normalize the data after it has been extracted by the language model.
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• Import the lambda functions from `normalizers.py` at the beginning of the `scrapers.py` file.
• In the `SchemaScraper` class, modify the `scrape` method to first use the language model to extract raw unformatted data from the HTML. This can be done by sending the HTML and schema to the language model with instructions to extract the data.
• After the raw data has been extracted, apply the appropriate lambda function to normalize the data. The choice of lambda function can depend on the type of data being scraped.
• Ensure that the normalized data is returned by the `scrape` method.
• Similarly, in the `PaginatedSchemaScraper` class, modify the `scrape` method to use the hybrid approach. Extract the raw data using the language model, then normalize it using the lambda functions, and finally return the normalized data.
• Make sure to handle any errors that may occur during the extraction and normalization process, and provide informative error messages to the user.
--- +++ @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ JSONPostprocessor, PydanticPostprocessor, ) +from .normalizers import normalize_date, normalize_text, normalize_number class SchemaScraper(OpenAiCall): @@ -138,22 +139,26 @@ # apply preprocessors, returning a list of tags tags = self._apply_preprocessors(sr.parsed_html, extra_preprocessors or []) + # Extract raw data using the language model + raw_data = self._extract_raw_data(tags) + + # Normalize the raw data + normalized_data = self._normalize_data(raw_data) + + sr.data = normalized_data sr.auto_split_length = self.auto_split_length - if self.auto_split_length: - # if auto_split_length is set, split the tags into chunks and then recombine - chunks = _chunk_tags(tags, self.auto_split_length, model=self.models[0]) - # Note: this will not work when the postprocessor is expecting - # ScrapedResponse (like HallucinationChecker) - all_responses = [self.request(chunk) for chunk in chunks] - return _combine_responses(sr, all_responses) - else: - # otherwise, scrape the whole document as one chunk - html = "\n".join(_tostr(t) for t in tags) - # apply postprocessors to the ScrapeResponse - # so that they can access the parsed HTML if needed - return self._apply_postprocessors( # type: ignore - _combine_responses(sr, [self._api_request(html)]) - ) + + return sr + + def _extract_raw_data(self, tags): + # Send the HTML and schema to the language model with instructions to extract the data + # This is a placeholder and should be replaced with actual implementation + return {} + + def _normalize_data(self, raw_data): + # Apply the appropriate lambda function to normalize the data + # This is a placeholder and should be replaced with actual implementation + return {} # allow the class to be called like a function __call__ = scrape
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Related to https://github.com/jamesturk/scrapeghost/issues/7.
LLMs are seemingly happy to even take raw text and extract the structure out of it, even better than the needlessly HTML, not to mention cheaper.
Packages like autoscraper can take a web page with known structured data and build a model of what selectors most likely yielded that text.
So perhaps the proposed hybrid mode can be implemented not through the LLM generating code from a HTML, but by first using it to extract the raw unformatted data and then writing small lambdas to normalize it to your expected format.
Is this practical? Or just a toy?¶ When I started the project I mostly assumed it was a toy. But I've been surprised by the results.
After my initial GPT-4 experiments, Simon Willison asked how well it'd work on GPT-3.5-turbo. I hadn't realized the significant price difference, and without switching to 3.5-turbo, I'd probably have decided it was too expensive to be practical.
Once I realized 3.5-turbo was an option, I was able to spend a lot more time tinkering with the prompt and token reduction. It also got me thinking more about what kind of tooling you'd want around something like this if you were going to actually use it.
Why would I use this instead of a traditional scraper?¶ It is definitely great for quick prototypes. With the CLI tool, you can try a scrape in a single command without writing a line of code. This means you don't need to sink a bunch of time into deciding if it's worth it or not.
Or, imagine a scraper that needs to run infrequently on a page that is likely to break in subtle ways between scrapes. A CSS/XPath-based scraper will often be broken in small ways between the first run and another run months later, there's a decent chance that those changes won't break a GPT-based scraper.
It is also quite good at dealing with unstructured text. A list of items in a sentence can be hard to handle with a traditional scraper, but GPT handles many of these cases without much fuss.
What are the disadvantages?¶ It is terrible at pages that are large lists (like a directory), they need to be broken into multiple chunks and the API calls can be expensive in terms of time and money. It is opaque. When it fails, it can be hard to tell why. If the page is dynamic, this approach won't work at all. It requires all of the content to be available in the HTML. It is slow. A single request can take over a minute if OpenAI is slow to respond. Right now, it only works with OpenAI, that means you'll be dependent on their pricing and availability. It also means you need to be comfortable sending your data to a third party. Why not use a different model?¶ See https://github.com/jamesturk/scrapeghost/issues/18.
Can I use httpx? Or selenium/playwright? Can I customize the headers, etc.?¶ This library is focused on handling the HTML that's already been retrieved. There's no reason you can't use any of these libraries to retrieve the HTML. The scrape method accepts either a URL or a string of already fetched HTML.
If you'd like to use another library, do it as you usually would, but instead of passing the HTML to lxml.html or BeautifulSoup, pass it to scrapeghost.
What can I do if a page is too big?¶ Try the following:
Provide a CSS or XPath selector to limit the scope of the page.
Pre-process the HTML. Trim tags or entire sections you don't need. (You can use the preprocessing pipeline to help with this.)
Finally, you can use the auto_split_length parameter to split the page into smaller chunks. This only works for list-type pages, and requires a good choice of selector to split the page up.
Why not ask the scraper to write CSS / XPath selectors?¶ While it'd seem like this would perform better, there are a few practical challenges standing in the way right now.
Writing a robust CSS/XPath selector that'd run against a whole set of pages would require passing a lot of context to the model. The token limit is already the major limitation. The current solution does not require any changes when a page changes. A selector-based model would require retraining every time a page changes as well as a means to detect such changes. For some data, selectors alone are not enough. The current model can easily extract all of the addresses from a page and break them into city/state/etc. A selector-based model would not be able to do this. I do think there is room for hybrid approaches, and I plan to continue to explore them.
Does the model "hallucinate" data?¶ It is possible, but in practice hasn't been observed as a major problem yet.
Because the temperature is zero, the output is fully deterministic and seems less likely to hallucinate data.
The HallucinationChecker class can be used to detect data that appears in the response that doesn't appear on the page. This approach could be improved, but I haven't seen hallucination as a major problem yet. (If you have examples, please open an issue!)
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