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Memorious

The solitary and lucid spectator of a multiform, instantaneous and almost intolerably precise world.

-- Funes the Memorious <http:>_,
Jorge Luis Borges

.. image:: https://github.com/alephdata/memorious/workflows/memorious/badge.svg

memorious

• Make crawlers modular and simple tasks re-usable
• Provide utility functions to do common tasks such as data storage, HTTP session management
• Integrate crawlers with the Aleph and FollowTheMoney ecosystem
• Get out of your way as much as possible

Design

When writing a scraper, you often need to paginate through through an index page, then download an HTML page for each result and finally parse that page and insert or update a record in a database.

memorious

crawlers

stages

stage

crawlers

The basic steps of writing a Memorious crawler:

1. Make YAML crawler configuration file
2. Add different stages
3. Write code for stage operations (optional)
4. Test, rinse, repeat

Documentation

The documentation for Memorious is available at

memorious.readthedocs.io 

docs

To build the documentation, inside the

docs

make html

You'll find the resulting HTML files in /docs/_build/html.