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.

# On Ubuntu:
apt install pkg-config

Usage

The CLI is a binary so do not add it to your Cargo.toml file.

# 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:

# HTTP mode (default)
spider --url https://choosealicense.com crawl --output-links

# Browser mode on demand
spider --url https://choosealicense.com --headless crawl --output-links

# 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.

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.

spider --url https://choosealicense.com download -t _temp_spider_downloads

Set a crawl budget and only crawl one domain.

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.

spider --url https://choosealicense.com --budget "*,100,/blog/,10" crawl -o

Get all the resources for the page.

spider --url https://choosealicense.com --full-resources crawl -o

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.