A high-level distributed crawling framework
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# Cola: high-level distributed crawling framework
## Overview
Cola is a high-level distributed crawling framework, used to crawl data and extract structured data from pages of websites. It provides simple and fast yet flexible way to achieve your data acquisition objective. Users only need to write one piece of code which can run under both local and distributed mode.
## Requirements
Python2.7 (Python3+ will be supported later)
Work on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX
## Install
### Source code
Download source code, then run:
`sh python setup.py install `
## Write application
Documents will update soon, now just refer to the [wiki](https://github.com/chineking/cola/tree/master/app/wiki) or [weibo](https://github.com/chineking/cola/tree/master/app/weibo) application.
## Run application
### Local mode
In order to let your application support local mode, just add code to the entrance as below.
`python from cola.context import Context ctx = Context(local_mode=True) ctx.run_job(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))) `
Then run the application:
`sh python __init__.py `
### Distributed mode
Start master:
`sh coca master -s [ip:port] `
Start one or more workers:
`sh coca worker -s -m [ip:port] `
Then run the application(weibo as example):
`sh coca job -u /path/to/cola/app/weibo -r `
## Coca command
Coca is a convenient command-line tool for the whole cola environment.
### master
Kill master to stop the whole cluster:
` coca master -k `
### job
List all jobs:
`sh coca job -m [ip:port] -l `
Example as:
`sh list jobs at master: 10.211.55.2:11103 ====> job id: 8ZcGfAqHmzc, job_name: sina weibo crawler, status: stopped `
You can run a job which shown in the list above:
`sh coca job -r 8ZcGfAqHmzc `
Actually, you don’t have to input the complete job name:
`sh coca job -r 8Z `
Part of the job name is fine if there’s no conflict.
You can know the status of a running job by:
`sh coca job -t 8Z `
The status like counters during running and so on will be output to the terminal.
You can kill a job by the kill command:
`sh coca job -k 8Z `
### startproject
You can create an application by this command:
`sh coca startproject colatest `
Remember, help command will always be helpful:
`sh coca -h `
or
`sh coca master -h `
## Notes
[Chinese docs(wiki)](https://github.com/chineking/cola/wiki).
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