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Pholcus is a minimalistic web crawler library written in the Go programming language. It is designed to be flexible and easy to use, and it supports concurrent, distributed, and modular crawling.
Note that Pholcus is documented and maintained in the Chinese language and has no english resources other than the code source itself.
ScrapydWeb is a web-based management tool for the Scrapyd service. It is built using the Python Flask framework and allows you to easily manage and monitor your Scrapy spider projects through a web interface.
ScrapydWeb allows you to view the status of your running spiders, view the logs of completed spiders, schedule new spider runs, and manage spider settings and configurations.
ScrapydWeb provides a simple way to manage your scraping tasks and allows you to schedule and run multiple spiders simultaneously. It also provides a user-friendly web interface that makes it easy to view the status of your spiders and monitor their progress.
You can install the package via pip by running pip install scrapydweb and then you can run the package by
running scrapydweb command in your command prompt.
It will start a web server that you can access through your web browser at http://localhost:6800/
You will need to have Scrapyd running in order to use ScrapydWeb,
Scrapyd is a service for running Scrapy spiders, it allows you to schedule spiders to run at regular intervals
and also allows you to run spiders on remote machines.
Example Use
package main
import (
"github.com/henrylee2cn/pholcus/exec"
_ "github.com/henrylee2cn/pholcus/spider/standard" // standard spider
)
func main() {
// create spider object
spider := exec.NewSpider(exec.NewTask("demo", "https://www.example.com"))
// add a callback for URL route by regex pattern. In this case it's any route:
spider.AddRule(".*", "Parse")
// Start spider
spider.Start()
}
// define callback here
func Parse(self *exec.Spider, doc *goquery.Document) {
// callbacks receive HTMl document reference and
}