Company
Date Published
Author
Antonello Zanini
Word count
4322
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Gospider is a command-line tool written in Go designed for fast and efficient web crawling, capable of handling multiple requests and domains simultaneously while respecting robots.txt and parsing JavaScript for link discovery. It offers features like customizable crawling options, proxy integration, User-Agent randomization, and compatibility with tools like Burp Suite. The guide provides step-by-step instructions for using Gospider, including setting up a Go environment, installing the tool, and executing commands to crawl websites like "Books to Scrape." It explains how to filter and extract specific URLs using a custom Go script and enhances the functionality by integrating Colly for web scraping, enabling data collection from product pages and exporting results to a CSV file. The text also discusses overcoming challenges like IP bans and anti-crawling technologies by using proxies or web unlocking APIs, emphasizing the importance of ethical crawling practices.