greek-scraper 0.1.1

Ultra-fast and efficient web scraper with GPU utilization for text cleaning and JSON output. Supports generic and language-specific scraping.

Greek Web Scraper

A high-performance web scraper built with Scrapy, optimized for Greek-language content extraction. Supports GPU acceleration for text processing and provides robust retry mechanisms for reliable scraping.

🚀 Features

• Efficient Web Scraping: Uses Scrapy with custom middlewares.
• GPU Acceleration: Cleans and filters Greek text using CuPy.
• Robust Encoding Handling: Automatic encoding detection and conversion.
• Custom Retry Mechanism: Skips domains with persistent failures.
• Parallel Domain Scraping: Configurable concurrent requests.
• Automatic Text Extraction: Uses trafilatura and BeautifulSoup.
• Storage Pipelines: Outputs cleaned text to JSONL and JSON.

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📂 Project Structure

greek_scraper/
│── middlewares.py  # Custom Scrapy middlewares for encoding & retries
│── pipelines.py    # Data processing & storage pipelines
│── spider.py       # Main Scrapy spider for scraping Greek websites
│── gpu_processor.py # GPU-based text processing
│── cli.py          # Command-line interface for running the scraper
│── __init__.py     # Entry point & helper functions

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⚙️ Installation

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/your-repo/greek_scraper.git
   cd greek_scraper
   

2. Install dependencies

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Ensure CUDA & CuPy are installed (if using GPU)

   pip install cupy-cuda12x  # Adjust CUDA version if needed
   

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🕵️ Usage

Single Domain Scraping

import greek_scraper

greek_scraper.scrape("example.gr")

Multi-Domain Scraping

import greek_scraper

greek_scraper.multi_scrape(["example.gr", "another.gr"])

Scraping from a File

import greek_scraper

greek_scraper.from_file("domains.txt")

Custom Configuration

import greek_scraper

greek_scraper.gpu(True)  # Enable GPU processing
greek_scraper.output_path("output.jsonl")
greek_scraper.language("greek")
greek_scraper.threads(4)
greek_scraper.speed(7)

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🛠 Configuration

Function	Description	Default Value
gpu(True/False)	Enables/disables GPU processing	False
output_path("file.jsonl")	Sets output file name	scraped_data.jsonl
threads(n)	Sets concurrent requests per domain	1
speed(n)	Controls scraping speed (1-10)	5
language("greek")	Filters text by language (Greek only)	greek

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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👨‍💻 Author

Charis Nikolaidis – GitHub – [e-mail]

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