# elliotgao2/toapi

Every web site provides APIs.

Repository: https://github.com/elliotgao2/toapi
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/toapi
Homepage: https://elliotgao2.github.io/toapi/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: html, json, api, python, web, spider, crawler, flask, toapi
Last push: 2026-08-09T07:26:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3201, "days_push": 24, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3555, forks 241 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:09.669152+00:00)

## What it is
A Python library that turns any website into a JSON API by declaring fields with CSS/XPath selectors. It fetches and parses pages on demand, caches results, and serves the data via a built-in Flask server.

## Use cases
- turn any website into a json api
- scrape a website and serve results as rest endpoints
- build an api for a site without a database or crawler
- extract structured data from html pages with css selectors
- proxy a website's pages as clean json endpoints
- cache scraped pages and serve them on demand

## When to choose
- you want a declarative, selector-based way to expose website data as JSON
- you need a lightweight scraping API server without managing a database or scheduled crawls
- you want built-in caching so repeated requests don't re-fetch source pages

## When to avoid
- you need large-scale distributed crawling or persistent data storage pipelines
- the target site requires heavy JavaScript rendering beyond simple headless-browser support
- you need authenticated or session-based scraping with complex workflows

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, api-framework, http-server, caching, parser, routing
- domain: web-development, crawlers, apis, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli
- tags: scraping-to-api, css-selectors, declarative-scraping, flask, json-api, html-parsing, automation, web-server

## Member repositories
- elliotgao2/toapi (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:09.669152+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:34:17.106016+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/elliotgao2/toapi (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:09.669152+00:00, sha 1426a6ce5eb6)
  - homepage: https://elliotgao2.github.io/toapi/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:28:05.313246+00:00, sha 72b43bab33c1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.