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langcrawler is a language crawler written in Python.
See Lang Fetcher as a language fetcher from langcrawler.
apt update
apt install -y python3-dev python3-pip python3-setuptools
pip install langcrawler
# Install Python, Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows SDK
pip install langcrawler
pip install langcrawler --upgrade
langcrawler \
--pg-address 127.0.0.1:5432 \
--pg-login postgres/postgres \
--redis-address 127.0.0.1:6379 \
--redis-pass redis \
--repo-count 1 \
--repo-host gerrit,github,gitlab \
--repo-lang go,javascript,php,python,rust,typescript
usage: crawler.py [-h] [--pg-address PG_ADDRESS] [--pg-login PG_LOGIN]
[--redis-address REDIS_ADDRESS] [--redis-pass REDIS_PASS]
[--repo-count REPO_COUNT] [--repo-host REPO_HOST]
[--repo-lang REPO_LANG] [-v]
Language Crawler
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--pg-address PG_ADDRESS
postgres address (host:port)
--pg-login PG_LOGIN postgres login (user/pass)
--redis-address REDIS_ADDRESS
redis address (host:port)
--redis-pass REDIS_PASS
redis pass
--repo-count REPO_COUNT
repository count
--repo-host REPO_HOST
repository host
--repo-lang REPO_LANG
repository language
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
Project License can be found here.
FAQs
Language Crawler
We found that langcrawler 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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