https://github.com/chriskite/anemone

Anemone web-spider framework
https://github.com/chriskite/anemone

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Anemone web-spider framework

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/chriskite/anemone
• Owner: chriskite
• License: mit
• Created: 2009-04-14T18:31:48.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: next
• Last Pushed: 2020-03-20T11:27:38.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-04T09:02:45.166Z (6 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://anemone.rubyforge.org
• Size: 577 KB
• Stars: 1,614
• Watchers: 63
• Forks: 329
• Open Issues: 53
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rdoc
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.rdoc
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
= Anemone

Anemone is a web spider framework that can spider a domain and collect useful

information about the pages it visits. It is versatile, allowing you to

write your own specialized spider tasks quickly and easily.

See http://anemone.rubyforge.org for more information.

== Features

* Multi-threaded design for high performance

* Tracks 301 HTTP redirects

* Built-in BFS algorithm for determining page depth

* Allows exclusion of URLs based on regular expressions

* Choose the links to follow on each page with focus_crawl()

* HTTPS support

* Records response time for each page

* CLI program can list all pages in a domain, calculate page depths, and more

* Obey robots.txt

* In-memory or persistent storage of pages during crawl, using TokyoCabinet, SQLite3, MongoDB, or Redis

== Examples

See the scripts under the lib/anemone/cli directory for examples of several useful Anemone tasks.

== Requirements

* nokogiri

* robots

== Development

To test and develop this gem, additional requirements are:

* rspec

* fakeweb

* tokyocabinet

* kyotocabinet-ruby

* mongo

* redis

* sqlite3

You will need to have KyotoCabinet, {Tokyo Cabinet}[http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/], {MongoDB}[http://www.mongodb.org/], and {Redis}[http://code.google.com/p/redis/] installed on your system and running.