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Redis-based components for Scrapy

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Redis-based components for Scrapy
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This is a initial work on Scrapy-Redis integration, not production-tested.
Use it at your own risk!

Features:
* Distributed crawling/scraping
* Distributed post-processing

Requirements:
* Scrapy >= 0.13 (development version)
* redis-py (tested on 2.4.9)
* redis server (tested on 2.2-2.4)

Available Scrapy components:
* Scheduler
* Duplication Filter
* Item Pipeline

Usage
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In your settings.py:

.. code-block:: python

# enables scheduling storing requests queue in redis
SCHEDULER = "scrapy_redis.scheduler.Scheduler"

# don't cleanup redis queues, allows to pause/resume crawls
SCHEDULER_PERSIST = True

# store scraped item in redis for post-processing
ITEM_PIPELINES = [
'scrapy_redis.pipelines.RedisPipeline',
]


Running the example project
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You can test the funcionality following the next steps:

1. Setup scrapy_redis package in your PYTHONPATH

2. Run the crawler for first time then stop it::

$ cd example-project
$ scrapy crawl dmoz
... [dmoz] ...
^C

3. Run the crawler again to resume stopped crawling::

$ scrapy crawl dmoz
... [dmoz] DEBUG: Resuming crawl (9019 requests scheduled)

4. Start one or more additional scrapy crawlers::

$ scrapy crawl dmoz
... [dmoz] DEBUG: Resuming crawl (8712 requests scheduled)

5. Start one or more post-processing workers::

$ python process_items.py
Processing: Kilani Giftware (http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Shopping/Gifts/)
Processing: NinjaGizmos.com (http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Shopping/Gifts/)
...

That's it.

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