# Spider CLI

A fast command-line spider (web crawler) for high-performance website scraping.
## Dependencies
On Linux
- OpenSSL 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, or 1.1.1
Note: You need to have `pkg-config` installed otherwise `openssl` will not be recognized by cargo.
```bash
# On Ubuntu:
apt install pkg-config
```
## Usage
The CLI is a binary so do not add it to your `Cargo.toml` file.
```sh
# default install (includes chrome support)
cargo install spider_cli
# optional smart mode (HTTP first, browser fallback)
cargo install -F smart spider_cli
```
## Cli
Run crawls with explicit runtime mode control:
```sh
# HTTP mode (default)
spider --url https://choosealicense.com crawl --output-links
```
```sh
# Browser mode on demand
spider --url https://choosealicense.com --headless crawl --output-links
```
```sh
# Force HTTP-only even in chrome-enabled builds
spider --url https://choosealicense.com --http crawl --output-links
```
Crawl and output all links visited to a file.
```sh
spider --url https://choosealicense.com crawl -o > spider_choosealicense.json
```
Download all html to local destination. Use the option `-t` to pass in the target destination folder.
```sh
spider --url https://choosealicense.com download -t _temp_spider_downloads
```
Set a crawl budget and only crawl one domain.
```sh
spider --url https://choosealicense.com --budget "*,1" crawl -o
```
Set a crawl budget and only allow 10 pages matching the /blog/ path and limit all pages to 100.
```sh
spider --url https://choosealicense.com --budget "*,100,/blog/,10" crawl -o
```
Get all the resources for the page.
```sh
spider --url https://choosealicense.com --full-resources crawl -o
```
```sh
The fastest web crawler CLI written in Rust.
Usage: spider [OPTIONS] --url <URL> [COMMAND]
Commands:
crawl Crawl the website extracting links
scrape Scrape the website extracting html and links returning the output as jsonl
download Download html markup to destination
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-u, --url <URL> The website URL to crawl
-r, --respect-robots-txt Respect robots.txt file
-s, --subdomains Allow sub-domain crawling
-t, --tld Allow all tlds for domain
-H, --return-headers Return page headers (requires `headers` feature)
-v, --verbose Print page visited on standard output
-D, --delay <DELAY> Polite crawling delay in milli seconds
--limit <LIMIT> The max pages allowed to crawl
--blacklist-url <BLACKLIST_URL> Comma-separated deny list for URLs
-a, --agent <AGENT> User-Agent
-B, --budget <BUDGET> Crawl budget rules
-E, --external-domains <EXTERNAL_DOMAINS> External domains to include
-b, --block-images Block image rendering when using Chrome
-d, --depth <DEPTH> Crawl depth limit
--accept-invalid-certs Dangerously accept invalid certficates
--full-resources Gather css/js and other page resources
--headless Use browser rendering mode (headless)
--http Force HTTP-only mode (no browser rendering)
-p, --proxy-url <PROXY_URL> The proxy url to use
--spider-cloud-key <SPIDER_CLOUD_KEY> Spider Cloud API key
--spider-cloud-mode <SPIDER_CLOUD_MODE> proxy|api|unblocker|fallback|smart
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
```
All features are available except the Website struct `on_link_find_callback` configuration option.