Silene

Silene is an open source web crawler framework built upon Pyppeteer.

Requirements

You must have at least Python 3.7 installed.

Installation

To install the latest release run pip install silene.

Quickstart guide

Each crawler must subclass the Crawler class and implement the abstract configure method. The CrawlerConfiguration specifies the initial requests to make and other properties of the crawler. Once a request is processed, the appropriate callback will be invoked. By default, in case of a successful request the on_response_success callback will be executed. This is where you can interact with the page content. You can also specify custom callbacks for your requests.

Below you can find a very simple implementation.

Example code snippet

from silene.crawl_request import CrawlRequest
from silene.crawl_response import CrawlResponse
from silene.crawler import Crawler
from silene.crawler_configuration import CrawlerConfiguration


class MyCrawler(Crawler):
    def configure(self) -> CrawlerConfiguration:
        return CrawlerConfiguration([CrawlRequest('https://example.com')])

    def on_response_success(self, response: CrawlResponse) -> None:
        # Do something with the response...
        pass

Development instructions

Prerequisite

This project requires Pipenv to be installed.

Create environment

Run pipenv install --dev to create a new virtual environment and install the necessary packages.

Run tests

Run pytest in the project root folder.

Run tests with coverage

Run pytest --cov=silene in the project root folder.

License

The source code of Silene is made available under the Apache License, Version 2.0.