can we scrape a local file?

[Akhil Shah]

The "Start URL" field does not accept a local file (html).  Is it possible to scrape a locally stored html document?

Thanks,

akhil

[Mārtiņš Balodis]

Hi,

Web Scraper won't accept local file urls. You can serve the html files as a local web site and then scrape it. If you have a mac or linux you can use this command to create a simple web server:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

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[Robert Hellmundt]

Hey,

thank you for the hint!

Unfortunately I am running into some troubles when I try to use webscraper on this simple web server.

If It try to enter the IP (http://192.168.1.71:8000/) I get the message, that the start URL is not a valid URL.

Am I doing something wrong or isn't it possible to do this anymore?

Thank you! :)

[Michael]

Try

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80

and

 http://127.0.0.1/

[Michael]

You could also get Apache and just host it locally that way, I'm having no trouble with Web Scraper accessing files like that. https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html