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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
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 ...
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 approximately once a month. [4] Common Crawl was founded by Gil Elbaz. [5]
HTTrack is a free and open-source Web crawler and offline browser, developed by Xavier Roche and licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3. HTTrack allows users to download World Wide Web sites from the Internet to a local computer. [5] [6] By default, HTTrack arranges the downloaded site by the original site's relative link ...
Distributed web crawling is a distributed computing technique whereby Internet search engines employ many computers to index the Internet via web crawling.Such systems may allow for users to voluntarily offer their own computing and bandwidth resources towards crawling web pages.
Googlebot is the web crawler software used by Google that collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine. This name is actually used to refer to two different types of web crawlers: a desktop crawler (to simulate desktop users) and a mobile crawler (to simulate a mobile user).
[citation needed] It takes its name from the poem Beautiful Soup from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [5] and is a reference to the term "tag soup" meaning poorly-structured HTML code. [6] Richardson continues to contribute to the project, [ 7 ] which is additionally supported by paid open-source maintainers from the company Tidelift.