MonkeyScraper

HTML Scraper for SurveyMonkey Free Accounts

What's that? Survey Monkey has an API you can use? Oh. Cool. ...

Basically, I was very annoyed with the inability to export survey results if your account is free at survey monkey. Rather than tacitly accepting this annoyance (and manually gathering every survey response), I wrote this HTML scraper to do this for me.

See MonkeyScraper.py for the implementation of this class, and see monkey_scraper.py for an example usage. Unlike with Sympa, where the horrible web interface made me want to write a scraper just so that I didn't kill myself, this is meant only for the task of finding the responses of single surveys.

However, this could likewise be explanded to be a full management tool. In any case, please fork me bby.

Example

from sys import argv
import logging
from MonkeyScraper import MonkeyScraper

LOG_FILENAME = 'MonkeyScraper.log'
logging.basicConfig(filename=LOG_FILENAME, level=logging.DEBUG)


def main(username, password):
    scraper = MonkeyScraper()
    scraper.init()
    scraper.log_in(username=username, password=password)
    print(scraper)  # Or do other stuff
    # ...
    scraper.scrape('<survey analyze page url>', format='csv', file='<output file or blank for stdout>')
    # ...
    scraper.log_out()
    scraper.close()
    
    #  Can also use context management to do this
    #  with MonkeyScraper(username=username, password=password) as scraper:
        #  print(scraper)  # Or do other stuff
        # ...
        #  scraper.scrape('<survey analyze page url>', format='csv', file='<output file or blank for stdout>')
        

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main(*argv[1:])