semvec/pypi-packages huggingface dataset:
arachnado 0.2
Scrapy-based Web Crawler with an UI
License: MIT

Arachnado
=========

Arachnado is a tool to crawl a specific website.
It provides a Tornado_-based HTTP API and a web UI for a Scrapy_-based
crawler.

License is MIT.

.. _Tornado: http://www.tornadoweb.org
.. _Scrapy: http://scrapy.org/

Install
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Arachnado requires Python 2.7.
To install Arachnado use pip::

    pip install arachnado

To install Arachnado with MongoDB support use this command::

    pip install arachnado[mongo]

Run
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To start Arachnado execute ``arachnado`` command::

    arachnado

and then visit http://0.0.0.0:8888 (or whatever URL is configured).

To see available command-line options use

    arachnado --help

Arachnado can be configured using a config file. Put it to one of the common
locations ('/etc/arachnado.conf', '~/.config/arachnado.conf'
or '~/.arachnado.conf') or pass the file name as an argument when starting
the server::

    arachnado --config ./my-config.conf

For available options check
https://github.com/TeamHG-Memex/arachnado/blob/master/arachnado/settings/defaults.conf.

Development
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* Source code: https://github.com/TeamHG-Memex/arachnado
* Issue tracker: https://github.com/TeamHG-Memex/arachnado/issues

To build Arachnado static assets node.js + npm are required.
Install all JavaScript requirements using npm - run the following command
from the repo root::

    npm install

then rebuild static files (we use Webpack_)::

    npm run build

or auto-build static files on each change during development::

    npm run watch

.. _Webpack: https://github.com/webpack/webpack


Changes
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0.2 (2015-08-07)
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Initial release.