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A high-performance web crawling and scraping framework for Node.js, designed for large-scale data extraction.

Spatie Crawler is a PHP library that allows developers to crawl websites and extract information efficiently. It can be used for web scraping, link checking, or automated testing of web pages. The library is simple to use and supports customizable crawling strategies, including controlling crawl depth and handling redirects. It’s suitable for building crawlers that navigate large or dynamically generated websites.

...Since our crawler seeks to collect and preserve the digital artifacts of our culture for the benefit of future researchers and generations, this name seemed apt. Heritrix is designed to respect the robots.txt exclusion directives† and META nofollow tags. Please consider the load your crawl will place on seed sites and set politeness policies accordingly. Also, always identify your crawl with contact information in the User-Agent so sites that may be adversely affected by your crawl can contact you or adapt their server behavior accordingly.

...As part of the author’s public learning-path repositories, python-spider likely includes examples of HTTP requests, HTML parsing, maybe concurrency or scheduling to crawl multiple pages, and techniques to handle common web-scraping issues. For people wanting to get hands-on with building scrapers, collecting data, or learning how to navigate web programming in Python, this repository acts as a didactic reference or starting point. Because it’s published publicly under an open license, users are free to fork and adapt the code.

RobotsDisallowed is a public catalog that tracks websites and organizations explicitly blocking AI and web-scraping crawlers in their robots.txt or related mechanisms. It focuses on documenting the growing trend of content owners asserting control over how their data is used for model training and automated harvesting. The project aggregates domains, notes the targeted bots or user agents, and surfaces patterns for researchers, policymakers, and tool builders. It serves both as a...

A Java Web crawler: multi-threaded, scalable, with high performance, extensible and polite. It can be used to crawl and index any web or enterprise domain and is configurable through a XML configuration file.