minet is a webmining CLI tool & library for python. It adopts a lo-fi approach to various webmining problems by letting you perform a variety of actions from the comfort of your command line. No database needed: raw data files will get you going.
In addition, minet also exposes its high-level programmatic interface as a library so you can tweak its behavior at will.
- Multithreaded, memory-efficient fetching from the web.
- Multithreaded, scalable crawling using a comfy DSL.
- Multiprocessed raw text content extraction from HTML pages.
- Multiprocessed scraping from HTML pages using a comfy DSL.
- URL-related heuristics utilities such as extraction, normalization and matching.
- Data collection from various APIs such as CrowdTangle.
minet can be installed using pip:
pip install minetTo learn how to use minet and understand how it may fit your use cases, you should definitely check out our Cookbook.