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crawler-dashboard
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Crawler Dashboard to control ghcrawler application.
The bare minimum configuration is:
{
"DEBUG_ALLOW_HTTP" : true,
"CRAWLER_REDIS_URL": "",
"CRAWLER_REDIS_ACCESS_KEY": ""
}
For more options see env/env-template.json file.
$ npm install
$ npm test
DEBUG=appinsights npm start or
DEBUG=* npm start
Note: Local environment can be accessed at http://localhost:4000.
The project team is more than happy to take contributions and suggestions.
To start working, run npm install in the repository folder to install the required dependencies.
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.
FAQs
Crawler UI Dashboard
The npm package crawler-dashboard receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, crawler-dashboard popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that crawler-dashboard demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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