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A Powerful Spider(Web Crawler) System in Python. TRY IT NOW!

  • Write script in python with powerful API
  • Python 2&3
  • Powerful WebUI with script editor, task monitor, project manager and result viewer
  • Javascript pages supported!
  • MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite as database backend
  • Task priority, retry, periodical, recrawl by age and more
  • Distributed architecture

Sample Code

from libs.base_handler import *

class Handler(BaseHandler):
    '''
    this is a sample handler
    '''
    @every(minutes=24*60, seconds=0)
    def on_start(self):
        self.crawl('http://scrapy.org/', callback=self.index_page)

    @config(age=10*24*60*60)
    def index_page(self, response):
        for each in response.doc('a[href^="http://"]').items():
            self.crawl(each.attr.href, callback=self.detail_page)

    def detail_page(self, response):
        return {
                "url": response.url,
                "title": response.doc('title').text(),
                }

Demo

Installation

  • python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4
  • pip install --allow-all-external -r requirements.txt
  • ./run.py , visit http://localhost:5000/

if you are using ubuntu, try:

apt-get install python python-dev python-distribute python-pip libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-lxml

ro install binary packages first.

Documents

TODO

v0.3.0 (current)

  • as a package
  • run.py parameters
  • sortable projects list #12
  • Postgresql Supported via SQLAlchemy (with the power of SQLAlchemy, pyspider also support Oracle, SQL Server, etc)
  • benchmarking
  • python3 support
  • documents
  • pypi release version

v0.4.0

  • a visual scraping interface like portia

more

  • local mode, loading scripts from file.
  • edit script with local vim via WebDAV
  • in-browser debugger like Werkzeug

???

  • works as a framework (all components running in one process, no threads)
  • shell mode like scrapy shell

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License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

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