Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: Arachne
Version: 0.2.0
Summary: API for Scrapy spiders
Home-page: https://github.com/kirankoduru/arachne
Author: Kiran Koduru
Author-email: kiranrkoduru@gmail.com
License: BSD
Description: =======
        Arachne
        =======
        
        
        Arachne provides a wrapper around your scrapy ``Spider`` object to run them through a flask app. All you have to do is setup your ``SPIDER_SETTINGS`` in the settings file.
        
        
        Installation
        ============
        You can install **Arachne** from pip 
        
        	pip install -i https://pypi.python.org/pypi Arachne
        
        
        Sample settings
        ===============
        This is sample settings file for spiders in your project. The settings file should be called **settings.py** for **Arachne** to find it and looks like this::
        
        	# settings.py file
        	SPIDER_SETTINGS = [
        		{
        			'endpoint': 'dmoz',
        			'location': 'spiders.DmozSpider',
        			'spider': 'DmozSpider'    
        		}
        	]
        
        Usage
        =====
        It looks very similar to a flask app but since **Scrapy** depends on the python **twisted** package, we need to run our flask app with **twisted**::
        
        	from twisted.web.wsgi import WSGIResource
        	from twisted.web.server import Site
        	from twisted.internet import reactor
        	from arachne import Arachne
        
        	app = Arachne(__name__)
        
        	resource = WSGIResource(reactor, reactor.getThreadPool(), app)
        	site = Site(resource)
        	reactor.listenTCP(8080, site)
        
        	if __name__ == '__main__':
        		reactor.run()
        
        
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