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>A scalable crawler framework. It covers the whole lifecycle of crawler: downloading, url management, content extraction and persistent. It can simplify the development of a specific crawler.
## Features:
* Simple core with high flexibility.
* Simple API for html extracting.
* Annotation with POJO to customize a crawler, no configuration.
* Multi-thread and Distribution support.
* Easy to be integrated.
## Install:
Add dependencies to your pom.xml:
```xml
us.codecraft
webmagic-core
0.7.5
us.codecraft
webmagic-extension
0.7.5
```
WebMagic use slf4j with slf4j-log4j12 implementation. If you customized your slf4j implementation, please exclude slf4j-log4j12.
```xml
org.slf4j
slf4j-log4j12
```
## Get Started:
### First crawler:
Write a class implements PageProcessor. For example, I wrote a crawler of github repository infomation.
```java
public class GithubRepoPageProcessor implements PageProcessor {
private Site site = Site.me().setRetryTimes(3).setSleepTime(1000);
@Override
public void process(Page page) {
page.addTargetRequests(page.getHtml().links().regex("(https://github\\.com/\\w+/\\w+)").all());
page.putField("author", page.getUrl().regex("https://github\\.com/(\\w+)/.*").toString());
page.putField("name", page.getHtml().xpath("//h1[@class='public']/strong/a/text()").toString());
if (page.getResultItems().get("name")==null){
//skip this page
page.setSkip(true);
}
page.putField("readme", page.getHtml().xpath("//div[@id='readme']/tidyText()"));
}
@Override
public Site getSite() {
return site;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
Spider.create(new GithubRepoPageProcessor()).addUrl("https://github.com/code4craft").thread(5).run();
}
}
```
* `page.addTargetRequests(links)`
Add urls for crawling.
You can also use annotation way:
```java
@TargetUrl("https://github.com/\\w+/\\w+")
@HelpUrl("https://github.com/\\w+")
public class GithubRepo {
@ExtractBy(value = "//h1[@class='public']/strong/a/text()", notNull = true)
private String name;
@ExtractByUrl("https://github\\.com/(\\w+)/.*")
private String author;
@ExtractBy("//div[@id='readme']/tidyText()")
private String readme;
public static void main(String[] args) {
OOSpider.create(Site.me().setSleepTime(1000)
, new ConsolePageModelPipeline(), GithubRepo.class)
.addUrl("https://github.com/code4craft").thread(5).run();
}
}
```
### Docs and samples:
Documents: [http://webmagic.io/docs/](http://webmagic.io/docs/)
The architecture of webmagic (refered to [Scrapy](http://scrapy.org/))

There are more examples in `webmagic-samples` package.
### Lisence:
Lisenced under [Apache 2.0 lisence](http://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0)
### Thanks:
To write webmagic, I refered to the projects below :
* **Scrapy**
A crawler framework in Python.
[http://scrapy.org/](http://scrapy.org/)
* **Spiderman**
Another crawler framework in Java.
[http://git.oschina.net/l-weiwei/spiderman](http://git.oschina.net/l-weiwei/spiderman)
### Mail-list:
[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmagic-java](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmagic-java)
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### Related Project
* Gather Platform
A web console based on WebMagic for Spider configuration and management.