github-crawler

Friendly github crawler.

Setup

1. Install requirements

pip install -r requirement.txt

2. Update source url as per your need in github/github/spiders/github-user.py

def start_requests(self):
		urls = [
			"your search url here"
		]

For CSV (default)

Set folllowing variables in settings.py

ITEM_PIPELINES = {
   'GithubCsvPipeline': 300,
}

For Elasticsearch

Set folllowing variables in settings.py

ELASTICSEARCH_HOST = ''
ELASTICSEARCH_PORT = 9200
ITEM_PIPELINES = {
   'GithubElasticsearchPipeline': 300,
}

Note: This option requires index to be already created in the elasticsearch server

For Google sheet:

1. Set folllowing variables in settings.py

GOOGLE_SHEET =""
ITEM_PIPELINES = {
   'github.pipeline.GithubExcelPipeline': 300,
}

2. Store googleapi credentials in utility/gsheets_credentials.json

Note: This option requires an existing google sheet with permissions "Editable by anyone who has link"

Run instructions

cd github
scrapy crawl github-user-search