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

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(),
                }

• 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.

• Quickstart
• API Reference
• docs

• 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

• a visual scraping interface like portia

• 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

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

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0