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Selenium Based Web Crawler

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Browler
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Browler is a Selenium based web crawler. It was built out of a need to crawl and scrape content from Javascript heavy
web sites.

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Requirements
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* Redis on localhost
* ``pip install browler``


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Example
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Perform a crawl with two concurrent processes with a limit of two visits per process. Additionally, do not follow any
links that contain ``bad-stuff`` in the url::

from browler import Browler
import re

config = {
"browser": "firefox",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page",
"limit": 2,
"processes": 2,
"plugins": [

],
"filters": [
re.compile('bad-stuff'),
]
}
crawler = Browler(config)
crawler.crawl()

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Features
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* Concurrent processing for faster web crawls (Use at your own risk)
* Selenium Grid support with remote browser configuration
* Plugin support with hooks to customize the crawler

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Configuration
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:browser: ``(string)(required)`` must be supported Selenium browser ``firefox``, ``chrome``, ``phantomjs``, or (``remote`` requires see ``remote`` below)
:remote: ``(dict)(optional)`` required when ``browser`` is set to ``remote``

:browser: ``(string)`` see ``browser``
:url: ``(string)`` url of the remote host ie. ``http://localhost:4444/wd/hub``

:limit: ``(int)`` maximum number of visits per process
:plugins: ``(list)`` instances which inherit from ``browler.plugins.base.Plugin`` see :doc:`plugins`
:filters: ``(list)`` filters out any links that match the following regular expressions compiled with ``re.complile``

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