A Powerful Spider(Web Crawler) System in Python. TRY IT NOW!

• Write script in Python
• Powerful WebUI with script editor, task monitor, project manager and result viewer
• MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQLite, PostgreSQL with SQLAlchemy as database backend
• RabbitMQ, Beanstalk, Redis and Kombu as message queue
• Task priority, retry, periodical, recrawl by age, etc...
• Distributed architecture, Crawl Javascript pages, Python 2&3, etc...

Documentation: http://docs.pyspider.org/
Tutorial: http://docs.pyspider.org/en/latest/tutorial/

from pyspider.libs.base_handler import *
class Handler(BaseHandler):
 crawl_config = {
 }
 @every(minutes=24 * 60)
 def on_start(self):
 self.crawl('http://scrapy.org/', callback=self.index_page)
 @config(age=10 * 24 * 60 * 60)
 def index_page(self, response):
 for each in response.doc('a[href^="http"]').items():
 self.crawl(each.attr.href, callback=self.detail_page)
 def detail_page(self, response):
 return {
 "url": response.url,
 "title": response.doc('title').text(),
 }

Demo

• pip install pyspider
• run command pyspider, visit http://localhost:5000/

Quickstart: http://docs.pyspider.org/en/latest/Quickstart/

• Use It
• Open Issue, send PR
• User Group

• local mode, load script from file.
• works as a framework (all components running in one process, no threads)
• redis
• shell mode like scrapy shell
• a visual scraping interface like portia

• edit script with vim via WebDAV
• in-browser debugger like Werkzeug

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0