Spider

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A web crawler and scraper, building blocks for data curation workloads.

• Concurrent

• Streaming

• Decentralization

• Headless Chrome Rendering

• HTTP Proxies

• Cron Jobs

• Subscriptions

• Smart Mode

• Anti-Bot mitigation

• Privacy and Efficiency through Ad, Analytics, and Custom Tiered Network Blocking

• Blacklisting, Whitelisting, and Budgeting Depth

• Dynamic AI Prompt Scripting Headless with Step Caching

• CSS/Xpath Scraping with spider_utils

• HTML to markdown, text, and etc transformations with spider_transformations

• Changelog

Getting Started

The simplest way to get started is to use the Spider Cloud hosted service. View the spider or spider_cli directory for local installations. You can also use spider with Node.js using spider-nodejs and Python using spider-py.

Benchmarks

See BENCHMARKS.

Examples

See EXAMPLES.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.