Newspaper Crawler

Scrapy based crawler which crawls newspaper.

Required Dependencies:

1. docker
2. docker-compose

Run the Crawler from source:

• First clone the repository. as it contains newspaper3k as a submodule of this repository,follow:

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/rafatbiin/newspaper-crawler.git

• Open terminal inside of the project folder and run the docker-compose file:

$ docker-compose up -d

• Use any MongoDB Client to check the DB at localhost:9004

Configuration

• The logs will be saved in a directory called tmp inside the runner package.
• The default crawling depth is set to 2. If you need to change that, you'll find the CRAWL_DEPTH environment variable inside the docker-compose.yml file.

About the Newspaper3k library

It's an awesome library which helps parsing data from a news article.At this moment, it doesn't have Bengali language support. So I tweaked the library to add Bengali language support. I've already created a Pull Request for adding Bengali language support to the library.

Development

You are welcome to contribute in this project. You can:

• create new issues pointing out the bugs.
• add new newspaper sources.
• add new features to extend the project.

Supported sources

Available Sources	Can Crawl
https://www.prothomalo.com/	✔
https://bangla.bdnews24.com/	✔
https://www.thedailystar.net/	✔