Hey @dogweather,
We support JL and CSV formats of outputs. Having a line per object.
At this moment we don’t have support for a possibility to create a root object with all items inside. As far as I see it might be complex for large crawls.
Also just in case, check our experimental UI. It still has a quite basic styling, but we’re migrating some parts to LiveView, so it will get better soon!
Sounds very nice. I replied to your other comment, but here’s a shortened example of a scrape where I get just one object. The real result has info for 20,000 or so web pages:
{
"date_accessed": "2019-03-21",
"chapters": [
{
"kind": "Chapter",
"db_id": "36",
"number": "101",
"name": "Oregon Health Authority, Public Employees' Benefit Board",
"url": "https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/displayChapterRules.action?selectedChapter=36",
"divisions": [
{
"kind": "Division",
"db_id": "1",
"number": "1",
"name": "Procedural Rules",
"url": "https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/displayDivisionRules.action?selectedDivision=1",
"rules": [
{
"kind": "Rule",
"number": "101-001-0000",
"name": "Notice of Proposed Rule Changes",
"url": "https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=101-001-0000",
"authority": [
"ORS 243.061 - 243.302"
],
"implements": [
"ORS 183.310 - 183.550",
"192.660",
"243.061 - 243.302",
"292.05"
],
"history": "PEBB 2-2009, f. 7-29-09, cert. ef. 8-1-09<br>PEBB 1-2009(Temp), f. & cert. ef. 2-24-09 thru 8-22-09<br>PEBB 1-2004, f. & cert. ef. 7-2-04<br>PEBB 1-1999, f. 12-8-99, cert. ef. 1-1-00",
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
As a part of the project development, I have decided to create a short cookbook of scraping recipes, if you’re using Crawly or Scraping in general, these articles might be useful for you (I am including medium friend links, so everyone can read them):
https://oltarasenko.medium.com/web-scraping-with-elixir-and-crawly-browser-rendering-afcaacf954e8?sk=345c1777d793aa99828986010cc3b077
Would you have a link to working crawly demo code? I tried several, including the one in the README, but I don’t get any output from it. It also has a bug or two that I fixed to get it to compile. I’m ready to try crawly out, but haven’t seen it work yet.
Sorry to say it, but I don’t have time (mostly due to an ongoing war in my country :() to work on Crawly.
Hey people,
I’ve got a bit of time to work on Crawly recently, and as a result have made a new release and a new article about it 
Hopefully you will find it useful.
Crawly rocks. I use it to scrape laws & statutes. I’m on a path to moving to it from Python Scrapy.
https://github.com/public-law/oregon-revised-statutes-crawler
