WeiboSearch

A distributed Sina Weibo Search spider base on Scrapy and Redis.

tpeng pengtaoo@gmail.com

Installation

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server
$ sudo apt-get install redis-server
$ sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb
$ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

1. put your keywords in items.txt
2. scrapy crawl weibosearch -a username=your_weibo_account -a password=your_weibo_password
3. add another spider with scrapy crawl weibosearch -a username=another_weibo_account -a password=another_weibo_password

or

1. scrapy crawl weibosearch -a username=your_weibo_account -a password=your_weibo_password -a savedb=False to avoid save to mysql db. (easier for experiment)