SearchEngineScrapy - Scrape data from Google.com, Bing.com, Baidu.com, Ask.com, Yahoo.com, Yandex.com,

Intro

SearchEngineScrapy is a web crawler and scraper for scraping data off various search engines such as Google.com, Bing.com, Yahoo.com, Ask.com, Baidu.com, Yandex.com It is based on Python Scrapy project and is developed using Python 2.7

Setup

    virtualenv --python="2" env
    env/bin/activate
    git clone https://github.com/naqushab/SearchEngineScrapy.git
    cd SearchEngineScrapy
    pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Prefix : -a

Params

searchQuery="" [Required Parameter]

searchEngine="" [Options: Google/Bing/Ask/Yandex/Baidu/Yahoo] [Optional Parameter] [Default: Bing]

pages= [Number of pages to crawl] [Optional Parameter : Default- 3]

Prefix : -o

Params

[Output the resulta to a file] [Optional Parameter] [Supported:json/jsonl/csv/xml]

Examples

scrapy crawl SearchEngineScrapy -a searchQuery="I'm Batman"
scrapy crawl SearchEngineScrapy -a searchQuery="I'm Batman" -o filename.json 
scrapy crawl SearchEngineScrapy -a searchQuery="I'm Batman" -a searchEngine="Google" -o filename.xml 
scrapy crawl SearchEngineScrapy -a searchQuery="I'm Batman" -a searchEngine="Google" -a pages=5 -o filename.csv

TODO

• Add support for DDG
• Ability to provide parameter of what to save
• Ability to export to various formats (currently limited to JSON, JSONLINES, CSV, XML)
• Contributing section