Overview

Patan is a lightweight web crawling framework, used to crawl website pages and extract data from the pages. It can be first helpful tool for data analysis or data mining. The core idea of Patan is inspired by Scrapy

Requirements

• Python 3.7+

Contributing

• linter: flake8
• formatter: yapf

Features

• Lightweight: pretty easy to learn and get started
• Fast: powered by asyncio and multiprocessing(TBD)
• Extensible: both spider and downloader is designed to be opened for custom middlewares

Installation

pip install patan

Get Started

create a new project

patan newproject projectname

generate a spider

cd projectname
patan newspider spidername

define where will your spider start

start_urls = ['http://xxxx.html']

or you can override the start_requests method

def start_requests(self):
        url_tpl = 'http://xxxx?page={}'
        for i in range(1, 200):
            url = url_tpl.format(i)
            yield Request(url=url, callback=self.parse, encoding=self.encoding)

create the item class

@dataclass
class StockItem:
    field1: str
    field2: str
    # fieldn: type

finish the item pipeline

class EastmoneyPipeline:

    def process_item(self, item, spider):
        # save item to database or files
        logger.info(item)

configure the item pipeline

{
    "pipelines": {
        "eastmoney.pipelines.EastmoneyPipeline": 10
    }
}

configure the middlewares if you need it

{
    "spider":{
        "middlewares": {
            "eastmoney.middlewares.EastmoneySpiderMiddleware": 200
        },
    },
    "downloader":{
        "middlewares": {
            "eastmoney.middlewares.EastmoneyDownloaderMiddleware": 200
        }
    }
}

finally, you're able to run the project now.

patan start [projectname|path-to-project]

TODO

• Settings File
• Middlewares
• Exception Handling
• Throttle Control
• Item Pipelines
• Scaffolding CLI
• Multiprocessing
• Pause and Resume
• Statistics Data Collecting
• Web UI
• More Protocols Support

Thanks

• Scrapy
• aiohttp
• glom