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Spider Documentation

Welcome to the Spider documentation! This directory contains comprehensive guides for using and extending Spider.

📚 Documentation Index

Getting Started

• Main README - Project overview and quick start
• Contributing Guide - How to contribute to the project

Web Scraper Plugin

• Web Scraper Plugin - Complete plugin documentation
• Quick Start Guide - Get started in 3 steps
• Quick Reference - Command cheat sheet

Plugin System

• Plugin System - Creating custom plugins

Examples

• Examples Directory - Code examples and use cases

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🎯 Quick Navigation

I want to...

...get started with Spider → Read the Main README

...use the web scraper plugin → Start with Quick Start Guide

...query scraped data → See Quick Reference

...create a custom plugin → Read Plugin System

...contribute to the project → Follow Contributing Guide

...see code examples → Browse Examples

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📖 Documentation Structure

docs/
├── README.md                           # This file
└── web-scraper/
    ├── WEB_SCRAPER_PLUGIN.md          # Complete plugin docs
    ├── quickstart.md                   # Quick start guide
    └── reference.md                    # Quick reference

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🔍 What You'll Find Here

Web Scraper Plugin Documentation

The web scraper plugin is Spider's most comprehensive data extraction tool:

• Metadata Extraction: Title, description, keywords, author, language
• Content Analysis: Word count, headings, text structure
• Link Extraction: Internal/external links with classification
• Image Extraction: URLs, alt text, dimensions
• Form Detection: Actions, methods, input fields
• Social Metadata: OpenGraph, Twitter Card data
• Structured Data: JSON-LD extraction
• Page Structure: Semantic HTML analysis

Plugin System

Learn how to extend Spider with custom plugins:

• Plugin architecture overview
• Creating custom plugins
• Plugin lifecycle and hooks
• Best practices
• Example plugins

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💡 Common Tasks

Run the Crawler

poetry run python run.py

Query Scraped Data

poetry run python query_data.py

Create a Plugin

from spider.plugin import Plugin

class MyPlugin(Plugin):
    async def should_run(self, url: str, content: str) -> bool:
        return True

    async def process(self, url: str, content: str) -> str:
        # Your logic here
        return content

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🆘 Getting Help

• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Discussions: GitHub Discussions
• Examples: examples/

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🤝 Contributing

Found an error in the docs? Want to add more examples?

1. Fork the repository
2. Make your changes
3. Submit a pull request

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines.

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