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Python-WebCrawler

This is a web crawler written in Python. You will have to install BeautifulSoup before you can use it.

Install BeautifulSoup

The steps are given below:

  1. Go to this site: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4

  2. Download the file "beautifulsoup4-4.1.3.tar.gz"

  3. Unpack the file into a comfortable location

  4. Open terminal and go to the unpacked folder

  5. Execute the following commands:

    python setup.py build

    python setup.py install

  6. If the install is successful, you will not see any errors on the terminal.

Running the crawler

Download the crawler.py file from the repo. This file is used to crawl a given site. I have listed a few use cases below:

The following command will display the total number of links found on a particular website after crawling:

python crawler.py http://website.com

If you want to crawl only upto a particular depth, then:

python crawler.py -d 2 http://website.com

If you want the links which are only found on this particular url:

python crawler.py -l http://website.com

There are many other options you can explore. Execute the following in the terminal and you will see a bunch of options:

python crawler.py --help

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