Web Scraping on Modal
This example shows how you can scrape links from a website and post them to a Slack channel using Modal.
import os
import modal
app = modal.App("example-linkscraper")
playwright_image = modal.Image.debian_slim(
python_version="3.10"
).run_commands( # Doesn't work with 3.11 yet
"apt-get update",
"apt-get install -y software-properties-common",
"apt-add-repository non-free",
"apt-add-repository contrib",
"pip install playwright==1.42.0",
"playwright install-deps chromium",
"playwright install chromium",
)
@app.function(image=playwright_image)
async def get_links(url: str) -> set[str]:
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
async with async_playwright() as p:
browser = await p.chromium.launch()
page = await browser.new_page()
await page.goto(url)
links = await page.eval_on_selector_all(
"a[href]", "elements => elements.map(element => element.href)"
)
await browser.close()
return set(links)
slack_sdk_image = modal.Image.debian_slim(python_version="3.10").pip_install(
"slack-sdk==3.27.1"
)
@app.function(
image=slack_sdk_image,
secrets=[modal.Secret.from_name("scraper-slack-secret")],
)
def bot_token_msg(channel, message):
import slack_sdk
from slack_sdk.http_retry.builtin_handlers import RateLimitErrorRetryHandler
client = slack_sdk.WebClient(token=os.environ["SLACK_BOT_TOKEN"])
rate_limit_handler = RateLimitErrorRetryHandler(max_retry_count=3)
client.retry_handlers.append(rate_limit_handler)
print(f"Posting {message} to #{channel}")
client.chat_postMessage(channel=channel, text=message)
@app.function()
def scrape():
links_of_interest = ["http://modal.com"]
for links in get_links.map(links_of_interest):
for link in links:
bot_token_msg.remote("scraped-links", link)
@app.function(schedule=modal.Period(days=1))
def daily_scrape():
scrape.remote()
@app.local_entrypoint()
def run():
scrape.remote()