No, they’ll ban the public IP and everyone who is NAT’d to that IP will also be banned. Although at least At stack if we think we are going to ban a college or something like that we’ll reach out to their abuse contact to get them to track the offender down and stop the … Read more
A while back, I worked with a smallish hosting company to help them implement a solution to this. The system I developed examined web server logs for excessive activity from any given IP address and issued firewall rules to block offenders. It included whitelists of IP addresses/ranges based on http://www.iplists.com/, which were then updated automatically … Read more
I didn’t mean to answer my own question but I just thought about running a sitemap generator. First one I found http://www.xml-sitemaps.com has a nice text output. Perfect for my needs.
Check out linkchecker—it will crawl the site (while obeying robots.txt) and generate a report. From there, you can script up a solution for creating the directory tree.
Spider arguments are passed in the crawl command using the -a option. For example: scrapy crawl myspider -a category=electronics -a domain=system Spiders can access arguments as attributes: class MySpider(scrapy.Spider): name=”myspider” def __init__(self, category=”, **kwargs): self.start_urls = [f’http://www.example.com/{category}’] # py36 super().__init__(**kwargs) # python3 def parse(self, response) self.log(self.domain) # system Taken from the Scrapy doc: http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/spiders.html#spider-arguments Update … Read more
I use the following code which seems to be working fine: function _bot_detected() { return ( isset($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’]) && preg_match(‘/bot|crawl|slurp|spider|mediapartners/i’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’]) ); } update 16-06-2017 https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943?hl=en added mediapartners
Scrapy is a Web-spider or web scraper framework, You give Scrapy a root URL to start crawling, then you can specify constraints on how many (number of) URLs you want to crawl and fetch,etc. It is a complete framework for web-scraping or crawling. While BeautifulSoup is a parsing library which also does a pretty good … Read more
You want to convert html (a byte-like object) into a string using .decode, e.g. html = response.read().decode(‘utf-8’). See Convert bytes to a Python String
It seems to me the problem is transferring a file before it’s complete, not that you’re deleting it. If this is Linux, it’s possible for a file to be open by process A and process B can unlink the file. There’s no error, but of course A is wasting its time. Therefore, the fact that … Read more
Check out dive written in golang. Awesome tool!