Description
A www crawler(robot) program in python.
Information
[http://members.lycos.co.uk/anandpillai "HarvestMan Homepage"]
- version
1.0.1 (Date(2003-06-14T00:00:00))
- licence
- An Opensource license, free for personal use.
- Python versions
- Tested on 2.2.2, 2.2.3
Deployment Platforms
- Tested on Windows 95-98/NT/2000, Mandrakesoft Linux 9.0.
=== Why should I bother ? ====
HarvestMan uses a new 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 truly multi-threaded webcrawler utility using the threading support in python language to the fullest. It is the first webcrawler in python, which is opensource.
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.
=== Who should use it ====
HarvestMan is written for the desktop user. It is ideally suited for python hackers and learners. We also urge the avergae user to download the executable and try it. It is free !
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 thrives by "harvesting" links from the internet, the name "HarvestMan" looked very apt.
Species: HarvestMan Genus: Web-spiderae