cak/foot

Foot is a library that fetches a list of URLs and silly walks through each site to gather information.

foot

Web Crawling Project

Foot is a library that fetches a list of URLs and silly walks through each site to gather information.

Usage

Install

pip install foot

foot (cli)

• -u URL(s) (encapsulated in quotes, separated by commas)
• -f filename (list of urls on new lines)

Options (not required)

• -c : Specify chunk size (default=10)
• --recursive : Enable one level of recursion

Examples:

Array of URLS:
foot -u 'http://example.com, http://example1.com'

Array of URLS with Options:
foot 'http://example.com, http://example1.com' -c 5 --recursive

File:
foot -f 'example.txt

File with Options:
foot -f 'example.txt' -c 5 --recursive

Module

Import:
import foot

Functions

The get function takes an array of URLS and options.

foot.get(["http://www.example`.com", "http://www.example2.com"], options);
    => Data output in ./foot/url.json and foot-date.txt

The file function takes a filename and options.

foot.file("./test.txt", recursive=True)
    => Data output in ./foot/url.json and foot-date.txt