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.
HarvestMan is a fully multi-threaded webcrawler utility using the threading support in python language to the fullest. 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