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Crawler
This extension enhances DataLad (http://datalad.org) for crawling external
web resources into an automated data distribution. Please see the extension
documentation
for a description on additional commands and functionality.
For general information on how to use or contribute to DataLad (and this
extension), please see the DataLad website or the
main GitHub project page.
Installation
Before you install this package, please make sure that you install a recent
version of git-annex. Afterwards,
install the latest version of datalad-crawler
from
PyPi. It is recommended to use
a dedicated virtualenv:
# create and enter a new virtual environment (optional)
virtualenv --system-site-packages --python=python3 ~/env/datalad
. ~/env/datalad/bin/activate
# install from PyPi
pip install datalad_crawler
Support
The documentation of this project is found here:
http://docs.datalad.org/projects/crawler
All bugs, concerns and enhancement requests for this software can be submitted here:
https://github.com/datalad/datalad-crawler/issues
If you have a problem or would like to ask a question about how to use DataLad,
please submit a question to
NeuroStars.org with a datalad
tag.
NeuroStars.org is a platform similar to StackOverflow but dedicated to
neuroinformatics.
All previous DataLad questions are available here:
http://neurostars.org/tags/datalad/
Acknowledgements
DataLad development is supported by a US-German collaboration in computational
neuroscience (CRCNS) project "DataGit: converging catalogues, warehouses, and
deployment logistics into a federated 'data distribution'" (Halchenko/Hanke),
co-funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF 1429999) and the German
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF 01GQ1411). Additional support
is provided by the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt and the European
Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Project: Center for Behavioral Brain
Sciences, Imaging Platform. This work is further facilitated by the ReproNim
project (NIH 1P41EB019936-01A1).