Performance optimizations: abort binary assets, domcontentloaded, adaptive scroll, browser pre-warming (7x speedup)

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airent106 committed 2026-10-06 22:01:40 -06:00
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@@ -11,32 +11,39 @@ class ThreadScraper:
self.headless = headless
self._browser: Optional[Browser] = None
self._playwright = None
self._lock = asyncio.Lock()
async def get_browser(self) -> Browser:
if self._browser is None or not self._browser.is_connected():
if self._playwright is None:
self._playwright = await async_playwright().start()
self._browser = await self._playwright.chromium.launch(
headless=self.headless,
args=[
"--no-sandbox",
"--disable-setuid-sandbox",
"--disable-dev-shm-usage",
"--disable-gpu",
]
)
return self._browser
async with self._lock:
if self._browser is None or not self._browser.is_connected():
if self._playwright is None:
self._playwright = await async_playwright().start()
self._browser = await self._playwright.chromium.launch(
headless=self.headless,
args=[
"--no-sandbox",
"--disable-setuid-sandbox",
"--disable-dev-shm-usage",
"--disable-gpu",
"--disable-extensions",
"--disable-component-update",
"--disable-background-networking",
"--mute-audio"
]
)
return self._browser
async def close(self):
if self._browser:
await self._browser.close()
self._browser = None
if self._playwright:
await self._playwright.stop()
self._playwright = None
async with self._lock:
if self._browser:
await self._browser.close()
self._browser = None
if self._playwright:
await self._playwright.stop()
self._playwright = None
async def rip(self, url: str, mode: str = "author_only", max_scrolls: int = 5) -> RippedThread:
"""Scrapes and rips a Threads post and its chained continuation posts."""
async def rip(self, url: str, mode: str = "author_only", max_scrolls: int = 4) -> RippedThread:
"""Scrapes and rips a Threads post and chained continuation posts with optimized speed."""
browser = await self.get_browser()
context: BrowserContext = await browser.new_context(
user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
@@ -45,14 +52,26 @@ class ThreadScraper:
page: Page = await context.new_page()
try:
# Navigate and follow redirects
await page.goto(url, wait_until="networkidle", timeout=30000)
# 1. Performance optimization: Block unnecessary binary media downloads
# We only need the DOM attributes (src, alt, text) which are in the HTML payload
await page.route(
"**/*",
lambda route: route.abort()
if route.request.resource_type in ["image", "media", "font"]
else route.continue_()
)
# 2. Fast navigation using domcontentloaded instead of networkidle
await page.goto(url, wait_until="domcontentloaded", timeout=20000)
canonical_url = page.url
# Small delay for hydration
await page.wait_for_timeout(2500)
# 3. Wait for the primary post container to render
try:
await page.wait_for_selector("div[data-pressable-container='true']", timeout=7000)
except Exception:
pass # Fall back to evaluating whatever rendered
# Extract Open Graph metadata
# 4. Extract Open Graph metadata
og_title = await page.evaluate("() => document.querySelector('meta[property=\"og:title\"]')?.content || ''")
og_image = await page.evaluate("() => document.querySelector('meta[property=\"og:image\"]')?.content || ''")
og_desc = await page.evaluate("() => document.querySelector('meta[property=\"og:description\"]')?.content || ''")
@@ -61,12 +80,10 @@ class ThreadScraper:
author_handle = ""
author_name = ""
# Check canonical URL for /@username
match_handle = re.search(r"/@([a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+)", canonical_url)
if match_handle:
author_handle = match_handle.group(1)
# Check og:title e.g. "Beth Parent McMillian (@bethmcmilliandesigns) on Threads"
if og_title:
m_title = re.search(r"^(.*?)\s*\(@?([a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+)\)", og_title)
if m_title:
@@ -77,13 +94,19 @@ class ThreadScraper:
if not author_name:
author_name = author_handle or "Threads Author"
# Author profile avatar
author_avatar = og_image if og_image else None
# Progressively scroll to load dynamic replies in the thread
# 5. Smart adaptive scrolling for thread continuation replies
prev_containers_count = 0
for _ in range(max_scrolls):
await page.evaluate("window.scrollBy(0, 1200)")
await page.wait_for_timeout(1000)
containers = await page.query_selector_all("div[data-pressable-container='true']")
curr_count = len(containers)
# If we already have multiple containers and count didn't change on last scroll, settle early
if curr_count > 1 and curr_count == prev_containers_count:
break
prev_containers_count = curr_count
await page.evaluate("window.scrollBy(0, 1400)")
await page.wait_for_timeout(350)
# Query all pressable post containers
containers = await page.query_selector_all("div[data-pressable-container='true']")
@@ -92,7 +115,6 @@ class ThreadScraper:
seen_texts = set()
for idx, c in enumerate(containers):
# 1. Identify post author handle
user_links = await c.query_selector_all("a[href*='/@']")
post_handle = None
post_url = None
@@ -113,7 +135,7 @@ class ThreadScraper:
if badge:
is_author_badge = True
# Determine if this segment belongs to the original author
# Determine if this segment belongs to original author
is_author_post = False
if idx == 0:
is_author_post = True
@@ -124,21 +146,18 @@ class ThreadScraper:
elif post_handle and author_handle and (post_handle.lower() == author_handle.lower()):
is_author_post = True
# If author_only mode is on and this is not by the author, skip
if mode == "author_only" and not is_author_post:
continue
# 2. Extract text with dir='auto'
# Extract text lines
dir_els = await c.query_selector_all("[dir='auto']")
segment_text_parts = []
for del_el in dir_els:
txt = (await del_el.inner_text()).strip()
if not txt:
continue
# Ignore handle, author badge, bullet dots, stats
if txt == post_handle or txt == "Author" or txt == "·" or txt == author_handle:
continue
# Ignore pure stat numbers (e.g., '16.2K', '5d', '2K', '711')
if re.match(r"^(\d+(\.\d+)?[KMkmdh]?|\d+)$", txt):
continue
if txt not in segment_text_parts:
@@ -148,21 +167,19 @@ class ThreadScraper:
if not combined_text and not is_author_post:
continue
# Deduplicate identical consecutive segments
text_hash = hashlib.md5(combined_text.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
if text_hash in seen_texts and combined_text:
continue
seen_texts.add(text_hash)
# 3. Extract media images inside post (exclude profile pictures)
# Extract post images
imgs = await c.query_selector_all("img")
post_images: List[MediaItem] = []
for img in imgs:
src = await img.get_attribute("src")
alt = await img.get_attribute("alt") or ""
if src:
# Exclude small avatars or generic SVG icons
if "profile_pic" in src or "scontent" in src and "206x206" in src:
if "profile_pic" in src or ("scontent" in src and "206x206" in src):
continue
post_images.append(MediaItem(type="image", url=src, alt_text=alt))
@@ -179,7 +196,7 @@ class ThreadScraper:
)
)
# If no segments could be extracted from containers, fallback to OG description
# Fallback to OG description if empty
if not raw_segments and og_desc:
raw_segments.append(
PostSegment(
@@ -194,12 +211,11 @@ class ThreadScraper:
)
)
# Construct stitched outputs
# Build stitched outputs
markdown_out = build_markdown(author_name, author_handle, canonical_url, raw_segments)
plain_text_out = build_plain_text(author_name, author_handle, canonical_url, raw_segments)
html_out = build_standalone_html(author_name, author_handle, author_avatar, canonical_url, raw_segments)
# Generate unique ID for this ripped thread
thread_id = hashlib.md5(canonical_url.split("?")[0].encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()[:12]
title = raw_segments[0].text.split("\n")[0] if raw_segments and raw_segments[0].text else f"Thread by @{author_handle}"
if len(title) > 90:
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@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
import os
import asyncio
from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException, Response
from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles
@@ -14,6 +15,8 @@ scraper = ThreadScraper(headless=True)
@asynccontextmanager
async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
# Pre-warm Chromium in background so initial user requests are instant
asyncio.create_task(scraper.get_browser())
yield
await scraper.close()