a web crawler to scrape documents from websites
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Overview
The docscraper
package is a scrapy
spider for crawling a given set of
websites and dowloading all available documents with a given set of file
extensions. The package is intended to be called from a Python script.
Getting Started
You can get started by downloading the package with pip
:
$ pip install docscraper
Once the package is installed, you can use it with scrapy directly in your Python script to download files from websites as follows:
>>> import docscraper
>>> allowed_domains = ["books.toscrape.com"]
>>> start_urls = ["https://books.toscrape.com"]
>>> extensions = [".html", ".pdf", ".docx", ".doc", ".svg"]
>>> docscraper.crawl(allowed_domains, start_urls, extensions=extensions)
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