crwlr
Library for Rapid (Web) Crawler and Scraper Development
This library provides kind of a framework and a lot of ready-to-use, so-called steps, that you can use as building blocks, to build your own crawlers and scrapers with. Before diving into the library, let's have a look at the terms crawling and scraping. For most real-world use cases, those two things go hand in hand, which is why this library helps with and combines both. A (web) crawler is a program that (down)loads documents and follows the links in it to load them as well. A crawler could...