Description

A www crawler(robot) program in python.

Information

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

  [http://harvestman.objectis.net/ "HarvestMan Home 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 (Might work for earlier versions also,
• not tested)
Platforms
Any platform supported by python
Binaries
None

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

• Species: HarvestMan Genus: (Internet) Spiders

Developers

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

Category NOT Homepage -- Hey, we (still) don't treat robots as men disregard any name they have. Homepage category is reserved for real people. See also CategoryHomepage -- MikeRovner DateTime(2003-11-06T20:48:22Z)