cookbot

Minimal crawlers for various recipe websites. It can be used for crawling:

• cookpad
• allrecipes.com

TODO:

• epicurious
• food network

Requirements

pip install scrapy

Usage

scrapy crawl cookpad --output=cookpad.json
scrapy crawl allrecipes --output=allrecipes.json

If you want to pause and resume crawls, run it like this:

scrapy crawl cookpad -s JOBDIR=cpad-crawl --output=cookpad.json

You can stop the spider safely any time (by pressing Ctrl-C), and resume it later by issuing the same command.