socio4health.utils.standard_spider.StandardSpider

class socio4health.utils.standard_spider.StandardSpider(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any)

A standard spider for scraping links from a given URL.

url

The URL to start scraping from. If not provided, a warning is logged.

Type:

str, optional

depth

The maximum depth to follow links. Default is 0 (no depth limit).

Type:

int, optional

ext

A list of file extensions to filter links. Default includes common document formats.

Type:

list, optional

key_words

A list of keywords to filter links by filename. Default is an empty list.

Type:

list, optional

start_urls

A list containing the starting URL for the spider.

Type:

list

links

A dictionary to store found links with filenames as keys and URLs as values.

Type:

dict

name

The name of the spider, used for identification in logs and output.

Type:

str

__init__(url=None, depth=0, ext=None, key_words=None, *args, **kwargs)

Initialize the spider with parameters.

Methods

__delattr__(name, /)	Implement delattr(self, name).
__dir__()	Default dir() implementation.
__eq__(value, /)	Return self==value.
__format__(format_spec, /)	Default object formatter.
__ge__(value, /)	Return self>=value.
__getattribute__(name, /)	Return getattr(self, name).
__getstate__()	Helper for pickle.
__gt__(value, /)	Return self>value.
__hash__()	Return hash(self).
__init__([url, depth, ext, key_words])	Initialize the spider with parameters.
__init_subclass__	This method is called when a class is subclassed.
__le__(value, /)	Return self<=value.
__lt__(value, /)	Return self<value.
__ne__(value, /)	Return self!=value.
__new__(cls, *args, **kwargs)
__reduce__()	Helper for pickle.
__reduce_ex__(protocol, /)	Helper for pickle.
__repr__()	Return repr(self).
__setattr__(name, value, /)	Implement setattr(self, name, value).
__sizeof__()	Size of object in memory, in bytes.
__str__()	Return str(self).
__subclasshook__	Abstract classes can override this to customize issubclass().
_parse(response, **kwargs)
_set_crawler(crawler)
close(spider, reason)
closed(reason)	Handle actions to perform when the spider is closed.
from_crawler(crawler, *args, **kwargs)
handles_request(request)
log(message[, level])	Log the given message at the given log level
parse(response[, current_depth])	Parse the response to extract links based on criteria.
start()	Yield the initial Request objects to send.
start_requests()
update_settings(settings)

Attributes

__annotations__
__dict__
__doc__
__module__
__slots__
__weakref__	list of weak references to the object
custom_settings
name
start_urls	Start URLs.