Broad Crawl Limits

A Scrapy middleware to prevents too broad crawl when following large amount of internal/external links

Usage

In order to use it in your Scrapy project, please enable middleware in settings.py:

SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {
   ...
   'broadcrawl.limits.BroadCrawlLimitsMiddleware': 100,
}

Settings

You can change limit values by setting variables in settings.py:

• BCL_MAX_INTERNAL_LINKS - max links from the same domain to follow on given page (default: 10)
• BCL_MAX_EXTERNAL_LINKS - max links from external domain to follow on given page (default: 10)
• BCL_MAX_LINKS_PER_DOMAIN - max total links per domain per crawl (default: 10)
• BCL_RANDOMIZE_LINKS - randomize links to have better chance to get more relevant results (default: True)
• BCL_RANDOM_SEED - seed for the link randomizer (default: 0)

Disable from spider

Please set Request.meta['skip_broad_crawl_limits'] to True, and limits will be disabled for this request

Tests

Please type tox in command line to run unit-tests