#!/usr/bin/env python """ Fourmi - An internet webcrawler searching for information on chemical compounds. [todo] - Add some more useful text here. Version: v0.0.1 - Empty Application that could do something but all logic of websites isn't there yet! """ from twisted.internet import reactor from scrapy.crawler import Crawler from scrapy import log, signals from FourmiCrawler.parsers.parser import Parser from FourmiCrawler.spider import FourmiSpider from scrapy.utils.project import get_project_settings import os, inspect, re def load_parsers(rel_dir="FourmiCrawler/parsers"): path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) path += "/" + rel_dir parsers = [] known_parser = set() for py in [f[:-3] for f in os.listdir(path) if f.endswith('.py') and f != '__init__.py']: mod = __import__('.'.join([rel_dir.replace("/", "."), py]), fromlist=[py]) classes = [getattr(mod, x) for x in dir(mod) if inspect.isclass(getattr(mod, x))] for cls in classes: if issubclass(cls, Parser) and cls not in known_parser: parsers.append(cls()) # [review] - Would we ever need arguments for the parsers? known_parser.add(cls) return parsers def setup_crawler(searchables): spider = FourmiSpider(compounds=searchables) spider.add_parsers(load_parsers()) settings = get_project_settings() crawler = Crawler(settings) crawler.signals.connect(reactor.stop, signal=signals.spider_closed) crawler.configure() crawler.crawl(spider) crawler.start() def start(): setup_crawler(["Methane"]) log.start(logstdout=False) reactor.run() start()