OLX_Scraper

An OLX Scraper using Scrapy + MongoDB. It Scrapes recent ads posted regarding requested product and dumps to NOSQL MONGODB.

NOTE: This repository is not maintained anymore.

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About

A Scrapy Program that scrapes recent ads about products and stores them in MONGODB Database. All the information regarding product to be searched is in args.py

Change values after return command

Usage

For proper usage first install selenium and parsel.Open Command Line and type commands given below

pip install pymongo

Configure these Settings in settings.py

ITEM_PIPELINES = {
     'olx_scraper.pipelines.MongoDBPipeline': 300,
}

MONGODB_SERVER = "localhost" (can be changed)
MONGODB_PORT = 27017(Set Whatever port mongodb is running on your system)
MONGODB_DB = "" (set this)
MONGODB_COLLECTION = "" (set this)

After all the above configurations have been successfully done.Then open command line and type:-

scrapy crawl scrape_olx