Frontera: open source large-scale web crawling framework

In this talk I’m going to introduce Scrapinghub’s new open source framework Frontera. Frontera allows to build real-time distributed web crawlers and website focused ones.

Offering:

• customizable URL metadata storage (RDBMS or Key-Value based),
• crawling strategies management,
• transport layer abstraction.
• fetcher abstraction.

Along with framework description I’ll demonstrate how to build a distributed crawler using Scrapy, Kafka and HBase, and hopefully present some statistics of Spanish internet collected with newly built crawler. Happy EuroPythoning!