A simple bookmarklet that lets you click any element in a page and returns the smallest unique (and reliable) selector it can find for that element.
Licensed under the WTFPL.
**Usecase:** Figuring out a CSS-style selector for screenscraping.
**How to use the selector:** Use your favourite screenscraping library with CSS selector support. If you are using BeautifulSoup, you'll need to use my [patched version](https://github.com/joepie91/beautifulsoup) to have support for :nth-of-type() pseudoselectors as returned by ScraperScript.
Extremely experimental. <strong>Drag</strong> the following bookmarklet to your bookmark bar, and click it whenever you want to scrape a page.
It'll let you click any element in the page, and you'll get its unique selector.
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<aclass="bookmarklet"href="javascript:(function(){_scraper_script=document.createElement('SCRIPT');_scraper_script.type='text/javascript';_scraper_script.src='http://cryto.net/scraperscript/scraperscript.js?x='+(Math.random());document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_scraper_script);})();">Help me scrape!</a>
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ScraperScript will block input to the page while it's active. To get control over your input again, simply close the ScraperScript bar using
the X in the top right corner.
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and a link to the page you are trying to work with.
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<ahref="javascript:(function(){_scraper_script=document.createElement('SCRIPT');_scraper_script.type='text/javascript';_scraper_script.src='http://cryto.net/scraperscript/scraperscript.js?x='+(Math.random());document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_scraper_script);})();">Help me scrape!</a>
There's also a <ahref="http://github.com/joepie91/scraperscript">repository for this stuff on GitHub</a>.