Have you ever written a web scraper, only to find out after a long time that there’s some extra data on the pages you should’ve been scraping all along?
Or a change on a website means your scraper stops working, and you lose days or weeks of data until you can find the time to fix it?
This library aims to solve this problem by splitting a Scrapy scraper up into two asynchronous stages:
Download stage - The website is crawled, and the pages to be scraped are downloaded and saved to disk.
Extract stage - The pages to be scraped are loaded from disk. The desired data is extracted from the pages and exported (e.g. to a file or database).
The crawler logic for the download stage should be kept as simple as possible. It would typically open a known URL and perform very simple actions such as clicking a “next page” button or submitting a search query. This reduces the risk of the downloader breaking if there are minor changes made to the website.
And since all of the raw data is being saved, if you ever decide to change your extractor logic, you can simply re-run the extractor on all of the data that has been downloaded.
Installation
Downloading and installing from PyPI
To install using pip:
$ pip install scrapy-twostage
Or to install using easy_install:
$ easy_install scrapy-twostage
Downloading and installing from source
Download the latest version of scrapy-twostage from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/scrapy-twostage/.
You can install it by doing the following:
$ tar xvfz scrapy-twostage-0.0.0.tar.gz $ cd scrapy-twostage-0.0.0 # python setup.py install # as root
Using the development version
You can clone the git repository by doing the following:
$ git clone git://github.com/acordiner/scrapy-twostage.git
Using scrapy-twostage
Coming soon…
Bug tracker
If you have any suggestions, bug reports or annoyances please report them at http://github.com/acordiner/scrapy-twostage/issues/
License
This software is licensed under the GPL v2 License. See the LICENSE file in the top distribution directory for the full license text.
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