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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.
Kimurai is a modern web scraping framework for Ruby, inspired by Python's Scrapy. It provides a structured approach to building web scrapers with built-in support for multiple browser engines, session management, and data pipelines.
Key features include:
- Multiple engine support Can use different backends depending on the scraping needs: Mechanize for simple HTTP requests, Selenium with headless Chrome/Firefox for JavaScript-rendered pages, and Poltergeist (PhantomJS) for lightweight rendering.
- Scrapy-like architecture Follows the spider pattern: define a spider class with start URLs and parsing methods, and the framework handles crawling, scheduling, and data collection.
- Built-in data pipelines Save scraped data to JSON, CSV, or custom formats with configurable output pipelines.
- Session management Maintains browser sessions with automatic cookie handling and configurable delays between requests.
- Request scheduling Built-in request queue with configurable concurrency, delays, and retry logic.
- CLI tools Command-line tools for generating new spiders, running individual spiders, and managing scraping projects.
Kimurai is the closest Ruby equivalent to Scrapy. It's well-suited for structured scraping projects that need organization, multiple spiders, and data pipeline processing.
Note: Kimurai has not seen active development recently, but it remains a useful framework for Ruby scraping projects and is included as the most complete Ruby scraping framework available.