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Mo McRoberts edited this page Jan 30, 2017 · 3 revisions

Anansi is a framework for building web crawlers, and a web crawler built using that framework.

It consists of:

  • libcrawl, a library for implementing web crawlers.
  • crawld, a daemon which uses a relational database-based queue.
  • Processors which can be enabled with crawld, in order to provide additional functionality.
  • Some utilities built using libcrawl

Etymology

See the description of Anansi on Wikipedia.

Licence

Anansi is open source software, distributed according to the terms of the Apache License, 2.0.

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