README.md

karwanbazaar

a scrapy based crawler to get articles from দৈনিক মতিকণ্ঠ, a satire news site in Bangla

running locally

git clone https://github.com/ShawonAshraf/karwanbazaar.git
cd karwanbazaar

# conda env
conda env create -f ghochu.yml
source activate karwanbazaar

# run
python main.py

spiders

there are 4 spiders in the pipeline which need to run sequentially since each spider is dependent on the output from the others.

karwanbazaar/spiders
├── archives.py
├── article_content.py
├── article_urls.py
├── index.py

running order of the spiders:

{
    0: index,
    1: archives,
    2: article_urls,
    3: article_content
}

all the spiders generate output files (jsonl, txt, html) which are saved in the output directory.

final output

articles.jsonl contains the final output with all the posts in jsonl format.

this is the format of one line of the articles.jsonl file:

{
  "article_id": "article id",
  "title": "title of the article", 
  "content": "content of the article"
}