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Web scraping framework based on py3 asyncio & aiohttp libraries.
.. code:: python
import re
from itertools import islice
from crawler import Crawler, Request
RE_TITLE = re.compile(r'<title>([^<]+)</title>', re.S | re.I)
class TestCrawler(Crawler):
def task_generator(self):
for host in islice(open('var/domains.txt'), 100):
host = host.strip()
if host:
yield Request('http://%s/' % host, tag='page')
def handler_page(self, req, res):
print('Result of request to {}'.format(req.url))
try:
title = RE_TITLE.search(res.body).group(1)
except AttributeError:
title = 'N/A'
print('Title: {}'.format(title))
bot = TestCrawler(concurrency=10)
bot.run()
.. code:: bash
pip install crawler
FAQs
Web Scraping Framework based on py3 asyncio
We found that crawler demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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