Multisite-Python-Crawler

Usage

scrapy crawl mySpider -a url=<enter_complete_url> -a domain=<enter_allowed_domains_seperated_by_&>

Example

scrapy crawl mySpider -a url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales -a domain=en.wikipedia.org

Prerequisite

• Scrapy 2.3 and above

pip install scrapy

Description

An almost generic web crawler built using Scrapy and Python 3.7 to recursively crawl entire websites. Developing a single generic crawler is difficult as different websites require different XPath expressions to retreive content. This multisite crawler gets the paragraph tag text and outputs a JSON file of the following format :-

{
	"pages" : [
		{
			"page" : "....",
			"content" : "...."
		},
		{
			"page" : "...",
			"content" : "..."
		}
	]
}

If required, it can be modified to read text from other tags by including explicit xpath statements too. The settings.py file can be modified with relevant key value pairs supported by Scrapy.