Digs

Making easier the text crawling tasks over websites with depth levels.

Installation

pip install digs

or

pip install --upgrade digs

Usage

Common use will be extract the text from a website, the following call from terminal is the way to do that:

digs http://thewebsite.com

Also, you can add the option --depth=LEVEL to perform over the root domain (website) a crawling with the specific depth:

digs http://thewebsite.com --depth=3

Be careful, with high levels, the tree asociated to those crawlings grows exponentially in size.

And last but not the least, you can turn on a graphical interface (if you have installed PySide) with the following call from terminals:

digs -i

It will be look something like this:

About requirements

Look at requirements in the file: :

requirements.txt

digs was written by Jonathan S. Prieto C..