Description

A www crawler(robot) program in python.

Information

• [http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/harvestman/ "Freshmeat Project Page"]

  [http://sithara.freezope.org/harvestman/source/ "Source/Binaries Download Page"]

version

1.1.2 (Date(2003-08-13T00:00:00))

licence
OSL 1.1 (Open Software License Version 1.1)
Python versions
2.2.2, 2.2.3
Platforms
Any platform supported by python
Binaries
Available for Win32

How it spins its web

• HarvestMan uses a threading model using python threads to achieve a very fast, but highly customizable download of web-sites on the internet.It can be used to download files from intranet servers. It is the first multithreaded, opensource webcrawler written in python.

Features

• Fully Multithreaded
• Number of threads configurable by user
• Support for robots exclusion protocol
• Filtering of urls using regular expressions
• Filtering of server names using regular expressions
• Control download by specifying depth of fetching
• Configure by number of files downloadable
• Specify timeout for individual threads
• Control download speed by changing thread/depth options.

• HTTP/FTP/HTTPS support & support for servers in LAN.

• XML project files which can be re-read
• Smart reconnection
• Support for proxies/firewalls
• File limits, server limits
• Projects browser page
• Command line/config file support
• Use as a program or as a web-spider module
• OO architecture

Who should use it

• HarvestMan is written for the desktop user. It can be used as an internet spidering module also. An API for external users is being written.

Taxonomy

• HarvestMan is the name of a kind of small spider found in parts of N.A also called "Daddy long legs". Since this program functions as a "spider", and also makes a living by "harvesting" links from the internet, the name "HarvestMan" looked very apt.

  Species: HarvestMan Genus: (Internet) Spiders

Developers

• "The Harvesters", Anand B Pillai, Nirmal K Chidambaram