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)