# arachnado

**Repository Path**: BSTester/arachnado

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: arachnado
- **Description**: Web Crawling UI and HTTP API, based on Scrapy and Tornado
- **Primary Language**: Python
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-12-03
- **Last Updated**: 2025-01-07

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

Arachnado
=========

Arachnado is a tool to crawl a specific website.
It provides a Tornado_-based HTTP API and a web UI for a Scrapy_-based
crawler.

License is MIT.

.. _Tornado: http://www.tornadoweb.org
.. _Scrapy: http://scrapy.org/

Install
-------

Arachnado requires Python 2.7 or Python 3.5.
To install Arachnado use pip::

    pip install arachnado

Run
---

To start Arachnado execute ``arachnado`` command::

    arachnado

and then visit http://0.0.0.0:8888 (or whatever URL is configured).

To see available command-line options use

    arachnado --help

Arachnado can be configured using a config file. Put it to one of the common
locations ('/etc/arachnado.conf', '~/.config/arachnado.conf'
or '~/.arachnado.conf') or pass the file name as an argument when starting
the server::

    arachnado --config ./my-config.conf

For available options check
https://github.com/TeamHG-Memex/arachnado/blob/master/arachnado/config/defaults.conf.

Tests
-----

To run tests make sure tox_ is installed, then
execute ``tox`` command from the source root.

.. _tox: https://testrun.org/tox/latest/

Development
-----------

* Source code: https://github.com/TeamHG-Memex/arachnado
* Issue tracker: https://github.com/TeamHG-Memex/arachnado/issues

To build Arachnado static assets node.js + npm are required.
Install all JavaScript requirements using npm - run the following command
from the repo root::

    npm install

then rebuild static files (we use Webpack_)::

    npm run build

or auto-build static files on each change during development::

    npm run watch

.. _Webpack: https://github.com/webpack/webpack