Dear Mentors, I'd like you to see HarvestMan (http://harvestman.freezope.org) (ITP bug #352012). I have made some updates to the package over the last week.
Description:
<quote>
HarvestMan can be used to download files from websites, according to a
number of user-specified rules. The latest version of HarvestMan
supports as much as 60 plus customization options. HarvestMan is a
console (command-line) application.
HarvestMan is the only public-domain, multithreaded web-crawler
program written in the Python language. HarvestMan is released under
the GNU General Public License.
</quote>
The package is quite small and simple. The current tarball is
available at
http://download.berlios.de/harvestman/HarvestMan-1.4.6.tar.bz2
(< 100KB)
and my diff is at:
http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee03b091/debpkgs
The current status is, that I have a source package which generates
python2.3-harvestman, python2.4-harvestman and
python-harvestman. python-harvestman depends on the 2.3 version and
ships with a symbolic link to the executable script present in the
site-packages directory. I have also outlined the advantage of using
the 2.4 package in README.Debian.
It is almost lintian clean; upstream uses two changelog files, on of which
is called Changes.txt, so that causes a warning.
Please send in your comments, so that I can improve it.
Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah,
462, Jamuna Hostel,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai - 600 036
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