Open Source Python Web Scrapers for BSD

Scrapy is a fast, open source, high-level framework for crawling websites and extracting structured data from these websites. Portable and written in Python, it can run on Windows, Linux, macOS and BSD. Scrapy is powerful, fast and simple, and also easily extensible. Simply write the rules to extract the data, and add new functionality if you wish without having to touch the core. Scrapy does the rest, and can be used in a number of applications. It can be used for data mining, monitoring and automated testing.

Easily turn large sets of image urls to an image dataset. Can download, resize and package 100M urls in 20h on one machine. Also supports saving captions for url+caption datasets. Opt-out directives: Websites can pass the http headers X-Robots-Tag: noai, X-Robots-Tag: noindex , X-Robots-Tag: noimageai and X-Robots-Tag: noimageindex By default img2dataset will ignore images with such headers.

Nomad is tiny but efficient search engine and web crawler. This works very good for searching with in the set of corporate websites on internet and/or intranet's HTML documents or knowledge repositories.

A simple library for crawling the web. This library will give you the ability to create macros for crawling web site and preforming simple actions like preforming "log in" and other simple actions in web sites.

ApeSmit is a very simple Python module to create XML sitemaps as defined at http://www.sitemaps.org. ApeSmit doesn’t contain any web spider or something like that, it just writes the data you provide to a file using the proper syntax.

Webhunter is a distributed, multi-threaded web crawler designed for both general indexing and crawling the web for focused content.

Domain analyzer is a security analysis tool which automatically discovers and reports information about the given domain. Its main purpose is to analyze domains in an unattended way.

We are integrating existing communication systems including Wiki, IRC, Instant Messaging, e-mail, and even static web sites. We write web scrapers and servers for managing events, IRC bots, logs, local names, templates, and groups.

Dude is a very simple framework for writing web scrapers using Python decorators. The design, inspired by Flask, was to easily build a web scraper in just a few lines of code. Dude has an easy-to-learn syntax. Dude is currently in Pre-Alpha. Please expect breaking changes. You can run your scraper from terminal/shell/command-line by supplying URLs, the output filename of your choice and the paths to your python scripts to dude scrape command.

elk is a powerful open-source python based command-line web crawler that can recursively search for files and text on websites.