django-scraper 0.3.8

Django application for collecting online content following user-defined instructions

django-scraper is a Django application for collecting online content following user-defined instructions

Features

• Extract content of given online website/pages and stored under JSON data

• Crawl then extract content in multiple pages, with given depth.

• Can download media files present in page

• Have option for storing data under ZIP file

• Support standard file system and AWS S3 storage

• Customisable crawling requests for different scenarios

• Process can be started from Django management command (~cron job) or with Python code

• Support extracting multiple content (text, html, images, binary files) in the same page

• Have content refinement (replacement) rules and black words filtering

• Support custom proxy servers, and user-agents

Support Django 1.6, 1.7, and 1.8

Samples

Below is sample result from scraping https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

• Result ZIP file

• JSON result via a renderer:

Installation

This application requires some other tools installed first:

lxml
requests

django-scraper installation can be made using pip:

pip install django-scraper

For more and latest information about configuration or usage, please visit the repository in github: https://github.com/zniper/django-scraper

Support

If you have any questions about this application, please email to: [e-mail]