bhfutils 0.2.4

Utilities that are used by any spider of Behoof project

Overview

The bhfutils package is a collection of utilities that are used by any spider of Behoof project.

Requirements

• Unix based machine (Linux or OS X)

• Python 2.7 or 3.6

Installation

Inside a virtualenv, run pip install -U bhfutils. This will install the latest version of the Behoof Scrapy Cluster Spider utilities. After that you can use special settings.py compatibal with scrapy cluster (template placed in crawler/setting_template.py)

Documentation

Full documentation for the bhfutils package does not exist

custom_cookies.py

The custom_cookies module is custom Cookies Middleware to pass our required cookies along but not persist between calls

distributed_scheduler.py

The distributed_scheduler module is scrapy request scheduler that utilizes Redis Throttled Priority Queues to moderate different domain scrape requests within a distributed scrapy cluster

redis_domain_max_page_filter.py

The redis_domain_max_page_filter module is redis-based max page filter. This filter is applied per domain. Using this filter the maximum number of pages crawled for a particular domain is bounded

redis_dupefilter.py

The redis_dupefilter module is redis-based request duplication filter

redis_global_page_per_domain_filter.py

The redis_global_page_per_domain_filter module is redis-based request number filter When this filter is enabled, all crawl jobs have GLOBAL_PAGE_PER_DOMAIN_LIMIT as a hard limit of the max pages they are allowed to crawl for each individual spiderid+domain+crawlid combination.