crawler vs gen_retry

crawler

An easy to use, powerful crawler implemented in PHP. Can execute Javascript. (by spatie)

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gen_retry

Utilities for retrying Elixir functions, with configurable delay and backoff. (by appcues)

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crawler		gen_retry
	Project
3	Mentions	1
2,472	Stars	197
0.7%	Growth	-
6.8	Activity	0.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
PHP	Language	Elixir
MIT License	License	MIT License

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crawler

Posts with mentions or reviews of crawler. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

How to Build a Robust Web Scraper with Laravel: and Catch 'Em All
1 project | dev.to | 22 Apr 2024

The spatie/crawler package is a powerful tool developed by Spatie, a web development agency known for creating high-quality, open-source packages for the Laravel community. This crawler is designed to simplify the process of building web scrapers and bots in PHP, particularly within the Laravel framework. It provides a flexible and easy-to-use interface to crawl websites and extract needed data efficiently. Click me if you love spatie/crawler, give them a star too, they are the reason that this article exists.
Can I use Laravel Dusk to automate downloading an HTML version of a website?
1 project | /r/laravel | 3 Dec 2021

You probably want something like this: https://github.com/spatie/crawler
How to setup Wordpress to not crash due to 404 DDoS attack?
1 project | /r/Wordpress | 11 Sep 2021

Alternatively, write your own basic crawler or adapt an existing package like https://github.com/spatie/crawler.

gen_retry

Posts with mentions or reviews of gen_retry. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-15.

Complete, Production-Ready Phoenix Reference Applications
28 projects | /r/elixir | 15 Nov 2021

The second option for out-of-band processing would be a Task or if you want retry logic GenRetry. The primary downside here is that task isn't distributed, so if the server that's trying to run or retry this task goes away, there's nothing to pick it back up and try again.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing crawler and gen_retry you can also consider the following projects:

RED_HAWK - All in one tool for Information Gathering, Vulnerability Scanning and Crawling. A must have tool for all penetration testers

oban - 💎 Robust job processing in Elixir, backed by modern PostgreSQL and SQLite3

scrape - Scrape any website, article or RSS/Atom Feed with ease!

memoize - A method caching macro for elixir using CAS on ETS.

Guzzle - Guzzle, an extensible PHP HTTP client

changelog.com - Changelog is news and podcast for developers. This is our open source platform.

aws-elixir - AWS clients for Elixir

Crawler - A high performance web crawler / scraper in Elixir.

plug_wait1 - Plug adapter for the wait1 protocol

deque - Fast bounded deque using two rotating lists.

diskover-community - Diskover Community Edition - Open source file indexer, file search engine and data management and analytics powered by Elasticsearch

coderplanets.com - coderplanets.com API(GraphQL) server, build with elixir, phoenix, absinthe