galaxy.ansible.com · HTTP 200

Ansible Galaxy Scraper

Spider read galaxy.ansible.com in 3.1 s without a browser and returned 564 lines of clean markdown.

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Response galaxy.ansible.com/api/v1/roles.md markdown · 564 lines

**GET** /api/v1/roles/?namespace%5C_%5C_name=ansible**Content-Type:** application/json"next": "http://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v1/roles/?namespace%5C_%5C_name=ansible&page=2","created": "2023-05-08T20:18:03.967956Z","modified": "2023-10-29T18:44:31.726634Z","imported": "2019-04-26T23:03:27.101139-04:00","github_repo": "ansible-role_sublimetext","commit": "a1c5df38855094dbd9b09e1d2f576cb4644942d3","commit_message": "Add molecule test (#1)\n\n* Adds yamllint for local and molecule\r\n\r\n* Adds molecule and use in travis CI\r\n\r\n* Test multiple distro in single travis run\r\n\r\n* Relicence to MIT\r\n\r\n* Adds build badge\r\n\r\n* Revise supported ansible versions","description": "Install Sublime Text 3 on your machine. Supports both the dev and stable release channels.","avatar_url": "https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/pulp/api/v3/content/ansible/namespaces/018d1a01-e981-7ebe-b586-c66c8e1230c0/avatar/""pulp_href": "/api/pulp/api/v3/pulp_ansible/namespaces/13604/""name": "ansible-role_sublimetext","original_name": "ansible-role_sublimetext""created": "2023-05-08T20:18:04.098249Z","modified": "2023-10-29T18:44:31.731039Z","imported": "2020-05-03T03:55:52.049714-04:00","commit": "18a9d15033bb5131d0133187053b49a9f207f4f0","commit_message": "[GH-1] bfg could not be found.","avatar_url": "https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/pulp/api/v3/content/ansible/namespaces/018d1a01-e9f6-7f73-8947-1669a4367d4e/avatar/""pulp_href": "/api/pulp/api/v3/pulp_ansible/namespaces/13605/""release_date": "2020-05-03T03:29:17-04:00""release_date": "2020-04-22T03:59:00-04:00""created": "2023-05-08T20:18:04.529182Z","modified": "2023-10-29T18:44:31.735362Z","imported": "2022-07-18T13:20:32.817614-04:00","commit": "275fcab4cf47da97c8516d6df0efe80075362683","commit_message": "Update to 0.105.0.","description": "ansible-eksctl","original_name": "ansible-eksctl""release_date": "2022-07-18T13:19:05-04:00"

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The same call, in code.

The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on galaxy.ansible.com.

ansible-galaxy-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/standalone/roles/");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/standalone/roles/");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const roles = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("[class*='RoleCard'], [class*='list-item'], tr").forEach(el => {
    const name = el.querySelector("a[href*='roles/'], td:first-child a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const namespace = el.querySelector("[class*='namespace'], td:nth-child(2)")?.textContent?.trim();
    const downloads = el.querySelector("[class*='download'], td:nth-child(3)")?.textContent?.trim();
    const desc = el.querySelector("[class*='description'], td:nth-child(4)")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (name) roles.push({ name, namespace, downloads, desc });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: roles.length, roles: roles.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fields you can pull.

Role nameNamespaceDownloadsStarsDescriptionPlatformsVersionDependencies

Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.

What galaxy.ansible.com costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000021 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.

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curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v1/roles/?namespace%5C_%5C_name=ansible", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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