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...Its main applications are web crawling, downloads, scraping, and extraction of main texts, metadata and comments. It aims at staying handy and modular: no database is required, the output can be converted to various commonly used formats. Going from raw HTML to essential parts can alleviate many problems related to text quality, first by avoiding the noise caused by recurring elements (headers, footers, links/blogroll etc.) and second by including information such as author and date in order to make sense of the data. The extractor tries to strike a balance between limiting noise (precision) and including all valid parts (recall). ...

...These crawlers make use of common Python scraping tools such as requests, parsel, BeautifulSoup, and the Scrapy framework to extract structured information from web pages. Several scripts also incorporate multi-threading and proxy usage to improve scraping efficiency and help avoid common anti-scraping limitations. In addition to raw data collection, some spiders include basic data processing and analysis using tools such as pandas and simple visualization with matplotlib. It also contains examples of proxy pool integration and encapsulation to support more reliable crawling when working with sites that enforce request limits.