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File Saving

📄 File Saving

ScrapeSome allows you to format and save your scraped content with zero hassle—both via the CLI and in Python code.

💻 Save Output to File

Use these flags to save your output directly from the command line:

  • --save-to-file or -s: Enable saving to a file
  • --file-name or -n: Desired filename (extension added automatically)
  • --output-format or -f: One of html, text, markdown, or json

⚠️ Note: When saving to a file, only one URL can be scraped at a time.

📦 Example:

scrapesome scrape --url "https://example.com" --output-format markdown  --save-to-file --file-name output

👉 This saves the result as output.md.

Save Output in Code

The sync_scraper function supports saving to file using two optional flags:

  • save_to_file=True: Enables saving
  • file_name="your_file_name": Sets the base filename (extension inferred from format)

The output will be returned as a dictionary:

{
    "data": "<formatted content>",
    "file": "your_file_name.<ext>"  # if saving is enabled
}

📌 Example:

result = sync_scraper(url="https://example.com", output_format_type="json", save_to_file=True, file_name="example_output")
print(f"Saved output to {result.get('file')}")

Now you're set to save clean, readable data in your preferred format—programmatically or from the CLI.