README.md

pyspider

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

Documentation: http://docs.pyspider.org/

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

• pip install pyspider
• run command pyspider, visit http://localhost:5000/

Quickstart

Contribute

• Use It
• Open Issue, send PR
• User Group

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

• local mode, load script from file.
• works as a framework (all components running in one process, no threads)
• shell mode like scrapy shell
• a visual scraping interface like portia

more

• edit script with local vim via WebDAV
• in-browser debugger like Werkzeug

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0