api.rst

Crawler Python API

Getting started with Crawler is easy. The main class you need to care about is crawler.main.Crawler

crawler.main.Crawler

from crawler.utils import should_ignore

>>> should_ignore(['blog/$'], 'http://ericholscher.com/blog/') True

>>> should_ignore(['home'], 'http://ericholscher.com/blog/') True

from crawler.utils import log

>>> log('http://ericholscher.com/blog/', 200) OK: 200 http://ericholscher.com/blog/

>>> log('http://ericholscher.com/blog/', 500) ERR: 500 http://ericholscher.com/blog/

>>> log('http://ericholscher.com/blog/', 500) OK: 500 http://ericholscher.com/blog/