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This library is aimed at speeding up making of scrappers. The 'utils.py' file contains useful functions which allows users to raise alerts, get random user agents and hit URLs at random. This also reduces chances of getting blocked by the server
- Version
- 1.0.6
- Maintainers
- 1
This library contains many useful function which will speed up the making of scrappers. The library focusses on efforts to ensure that the scrappers don't get blocked by the servers. It has functions which:
- Returns a random user agent out of 10,000 user agents. The user agents are stored in a csv file inside the package.
- Randomly hit various URLs provided by the users
- Raise Alert in the form of e-mail and/or beeps
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This library is aimed at speeding up making of scrappers. The 'utils.py' file contains useful functions which allows users to raise alerts, get random user agents and hit URLs at random. This also reduces chances of getting blocked by the server
We found that scrapper-cf 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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