Skip to main content
Seesaw toolkit
==============

An asynchronous toolkit for distributed web processing. Written in Python and named after its behavior, it supports concurrent downloads, uploads, etc.

This toolkit is well-known for [Archive Team projects](http://archiveteam.org). It also powers the [Archive Team warrior](http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Warrior).

[![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/ArchiveTeam/seesaw-kit.png)](http://travis-ci.org/ArchiveTeam/seesaw-kit)


Installation
------------

Requires Python 2 or 3.

Needs the Tornado library for event-driven I/O. The complete list of Python modules needed are listed in requirements.txt.


How to try it out
-----------------

To run the example pipeline:

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
./run-pipeline --help
./run-pipeline examples/example-pipeline.py someone

Point your browser to `http://127.0.0.1:8001/`.

You can also use `run-pipeline2` or `run-pipeline3` to be explicit for the Python version.


Overview
--------

General idea: a set of `Task`s that can be combined into a `Pipeline` that processes `Item`s:

* An `Item` is a thing that needs to be downloaded (a user, for example). It has properties that are filled by the `Task`s.
* A `Task` is a step in the download process: it takes an item, does something with it and passes it on. Example Tasks: getting an item name from the tracker, running a download script, rsyncing the result, notifying the tracker that it's done.
* A `Pipeline` represents a sequence of `Task`s. To make a seesaw script for a new project you'd specify a new `Pipeline`.

A `Task` can work on multiple `Item`s at a time (e.g., multiple Wget downloads). The concurrency can be limited by wrapping the task in a `LimitConcurrency` `Task`: this will queue the items and run them one-by-one (e.g., a single Rsync upload).

The `Pipeline` needs to be fed empty `Item` objects; by controlling the number of active `Item`s you can limit the number of items. (For example, add a new item each time an item leaves the pipeline.)

With the `ItemValue`, `ItemInterpolation` and `ConfigValue` classes it is possible to pass item-specific arguments to the `Task` objects. The value of these objects will be re-evaluated for each item. Examples: a path name that depends on the item name, a configurable bandwidth limit, the number of concurrent downloads.

Consult [the wiki](https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/seesaw-kit/wiki) for more information.

Metadata

Release files for seesaw 0.6

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for seesaw 0.6
File Size Uploaded
seesaw-0.6.tar.gz 111.9 kB Details

Built distribution (wheel)

Table of built distributions (wheels) for seesaw 0.6
File Interpreter ABI Platform
seesaw-0.6-py2.7.egg Legacy Egg format - - Details

Total release size: 284.0 kB

Release files / seesaw-0.6.tar.gz

Download URL seesaw-0.6.tar.gz
Size 111.9 kB
Tags Source
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
bc9006587095006d72c81c28c752d899f0c7584c7d85e8a56c4145024e6abb16
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
b7f6722fef39743476b5af14ecea854ef4953a4e1f4f6be3b5de3bbacc28e3a4
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No

Release files / seesaw-0.6-py2.7.egg

Download URL seesaw-0.6-py2.7.egg
Size 172.1 kB
Tags Egg
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
1a174c857dfcd2c8a40b5ff91463c195a9ab5d116316476c16a8dc464c40ba81
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
51b78faf60388f33050db0ee48f6a059a70190ea91b5fbcd2a52f00d3eccb910
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No

Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

0.10.3

1 release file

0.10.2

1 release file

0.10.0

1 release file

0.9.5

1 release file

0.9.4

2 release files

0.9.2

2 release files

0.9.1

2 release files

0.9

2 release files

0.8.5

2 release files

0.8.4

2 release files

0.8.3

2 release files

0.8.2

2 release files

0.8.1

2 release files

0.8

2 release files

0.7

2 release files

0.6.1

2 release files

This release

0.6 This release

2 release files

0.5

2 release files

0.4

2 release files

0.3.1

2 release files

0.3

2 release files

0.2.2

2 release files

0.2.1

2 release files

0.2

2 release files

0.1.7

2 release files

0.1.6

2 release files

0.1.5

2 release files

0.1.4

1 release file

0.1.2

2 release files

0.0.16

2 release files

0.0.15

2 release files

0.0.13

2 release files

0.0.12

2 release files

0.0.10

2 release files

0.0.9

2 release files

0.0.7

2 release files

0.0.5

2 release files

0.0.4

2 release files

Anthropic, PBC Visionary sponsor Bloomberg Visionary sponsor Hudson River Trading Visionary sponsor Meta Visionary sponsor NVIDIA Visionary sponsor Microsoft Sustainability sponsor Depot Continuous Integration AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page