README.md

pyspider

A Powerful Spider(Web Crawler) System in Python. Try It Now!

• Write script in python with powerful API
• Powerful WebUI with script editor, task monitor, project manager and result viewer
• MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite as database backend
• Javascript pages supported!
• Task priority, retry, periodical and recrawl by age or marks in index page (like update time)
• 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(),
                }

Installation

• python2.6/7 (windows is not supported currently)
• pip install --allow-all-external -r requirements.txt
• ./run.py , visit http://localhost:5000/

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

Running with Docker

Documents

• Quickstart
• API Reference
• more documents: Wiki

Contribute

• Use It, Open Issue, PR is welcome.
• User Group

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0