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Scrapy (/ ˈ s k r eɪ p aɪ / [2] SKRAY-peye) is a free and open-source web-crawling framework written in Python. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using APIs or as a general-purpose web crawler. [3] It is currently maintained by Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub), a web-scraping development and services company.
Although this release includes library upgrades to Crawler Commons 0.3 and Apache Tika 1.5, it also provides over 30 bug fixes as well as 18 improvements. 2.3 2015-01-22 Nutch 2.3 release now comes packaged with a self-contained Apache Wicket-based Web Application. The SQL backend for Gora has been deprecated. [4] 1.10 2015-05-06
ht://Dig includes a Web crawler in its indexing engine. HTTrack uses a Web crawler to create a mirror of a web site for off-line viewing. It is written in C and released under the GPL. Norconex Web Crawler is a highly extensible Web Crawler written in Java and released under an Apache License.
Web scraping is the process of automatically mining data or collecting information from the World Wide Web. It is a field with active developments sharing a common goal with the semantic web vision, an ambitious initiative that still requires breakthroughs in text processing, semantic understanding, artificial intelligence and human-computer interactions.
StormCrawler is modular and consists of a core module, which provides the basic building blocks of a web crawler such as fetching, parsing, URL filtering. Apart from the core components, the project also provides external resources, like for instance spout and bolts for Elasticsearch and Apache Solr or a ParserBolt which uses Apache Tika to ...
Crawler, or spider type search engines (a.k.a. real-time search engines) may collect and assess items at the time of the search query, dynamically considering additional items based on the contents of a starting item (known as a seed, or seed URL in the case of an Internet crawler).
Common Crawl is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that crawls the web and freely provides its archives and datasets to the public. [1] [2] Common Crawl's web archive consists of petabytes of data collected since 2008. [3] It completes crawls generally every month. [4] Common Crawl was founded by Gil Elbaz. [5]
Crawljax is a free and open source web crawler for automatically crawling and analyzing dynamic Ajax-based Web applications. [1] One major point of difference between Crawljax and other traditional web crawlers is that Crawljax is an event-driven dynamic crawler, capable of exploring JavaScript-based DOM state changes. Crawljax can be used to ...