Motoscrape

This project is a simple Scrapy-based tool that crawls a few websites that publish motorcycle advertisements and sends periodic reports through email.

The code style and other aspects of the code are probably far away from the best practices. Its purpose is just to do the job it was made for and maybe - show how it's easy to make a working Scrapy crawler.

Sidenote: Yeah, I know, there's a lot of stuff hardcoded in the scripts.

Usage

At first initialize the database of existing advertisements. To do so, create a directory called "scrapes" and run the initial scraping:

mkdir scrapes
./run.sh init

Then, if you want to get a report of the new advertisements, simply run the run command:

./run.sh

Each time this command is executed, a new "database" file is created. To get the new advertisements through email, you can use the reporter.sh script. It either sends new ads through email or sends the whole stderr in case of a failure. Mail text is constructed in the makereport.py; sendreport.py is a helper script that sends the email through the local SMTP server.

License

This software is published under the the Unlicense license. Basically, you can do whatever you want to do with it. I'm just not liable for any damages made.