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Published inOct 2015
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Richard Penman
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Richard Lawson is from Australia and studied Computer Science at the University of Melbourne. Since graduating, he built a business specializing in web scraping while travelling the world, working remotely from over 50 countries. He is a fluent Esperanto speaker, conversational in Mandarin and Korean, and active in contributing to and translating open source software. He is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at Oxford University and in his spare time enjoys developing autonomous drones.
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Sequential crawler


Here is the code to use AlexaCallback with the link crawler developed earlier to download sequentially:

scrape_callback = AlexaCallback()
link_crawler(seed_url=scrape_callback.seed_url, 
    cache_callback=MongoCache(),
    scrape_callback=scrape_callback)

This code is available at https://bitbucket.org/wswp/code/src/tip/chapter04/sequential_test.py and can be run from the command line as follows:

$ time python sequential_test.py
...
26m41.141s

This time is as expected for sequential downloading with an average of ~1.6 seconds per URL.

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Published in: Oct 2015Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782164364

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Richard Penman

Richard Lawson is from Australia and studied Computer Science at the University of Melbourne. Since graduating, he built a business specializing in web scraping while travelling the world, working remotely from over 50 countries. He is a fluent Esperanto speaker, conversational in Mandarin and Korean, and active in contributing to and translating open source software. He is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at Oxford University and in his spare time enjoys developing autonomous drones.
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