Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: minet
Version: 0.49.4
Summary: A webmining CLI tool & library for python.
Home-page: http://github.com/medialab/minet
Author: Jules Farjas, Guillaume Plique, Pauline Breteau
License: MIT
Description: [![Build Status](https://github.com/medialab/minet/workflows/Tests/badge.svg)](https://github.com/medialab/minet/actions) [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/169059797.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/169059797)
        
        ![Minet](img/minet.png)
        
        **minet** is a webmining command line tool & library for python (>= 3.6) that can be used to collect and extract data from a large variety of web sources such as raw webpages, Facebook, CrowdTangle, YouTube, Twitter, Media Cloud etc.
        
        It adopts a very simple approach to various webmining problems by letting you perform a variety of actions from the comfort of your command line. No database needed: raw data files such as CSV should be sufficient to do the work.
        
        In addition, **minet** also exposes its high-level programmatic interface as a python library so you can tweak its behavior at will.
        
        **Shortcuts**: [Cookbook](./cookbook), [Command line documentation](./docs/cli.md), [Python library documentation](./docs/lib.md).
        
        ## Use cases
        
        * Downloading large amount of urls very fast. ([guide](./cookbook/fetch.md))
        * Writing scrapers to extract structured data from HTML pages. ([guide](./cookbook/scraping_dsl.md))
        * Writing crawlers to automatically browse the web.
        * Extract raw text content from HTML pages. ([example](./cookbook/compendium.md#extract-raw-text-content-from-html-pages))
        * Normalize batches of urls contained in a CSV file to perform relevant aggregations (dropping irrelevant query items, extracting domain name etc.) ([example](./cookbook/compendium.md#parsing-and-normalizing-urls))
        * Join two CSV files based on columns containing urls that need to be matched ([guide](./cookbook/url_join.md)).
        * Collecting data from [CrowdTangle](https://www.crowdtangle.com/) API (to collect and search posts mainly from [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/)).
        * Collecting data from [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/) (comments, likes etc.)
        * Parsing [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/) urls in a CSV file.
        * Collecting data from [Twitter](https://twitter.com) (users, followers, followees etc.)
        * Scraping data (tweets etc.) from [Twitter](https://twitter.com)'s website public facing search API.
        * Collecting data from [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/) (captions, comments, video metadata etc.)
        * Parsing [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/) urls in a CSV file.
        * Dumping a [Hyphe](https://hyphe.medialab.sciences-po.fr/) corpus.
        * Collecting data from [Media Cloud](https://mediacloud.org/) (search stories, dump topics etc.).
        
        ## Features (from a technical standpoint)
        
        * Multithreaded, memory-efficient fetching from the web.
        * Multithreaded, scalable crawling using a comfy DSL.
        * Multiprocessed raw text content extraction from HTML pages.
        * Multiprocessed scraping from HTML pages using a comfy DSL.
        * URL-related heuristics utilities such as extraction, normalization and matching.
        * Data collection from various APIs such as [CrowdTangle](https://www.crowdtangle.com/).
        
        ## Installation
        
        **minet** can be installed as a standalone CLI tool (currently only on mac, ubuntu & similar) by running the following command in your terminal:
        
        ```shell
        curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/medialab/minet/master/scripts/install.sh | bash
        ```
        
        Don't trust us enough to pipe the result of a HTTP request into `bash`? We wouldn't either, so feel free to read the installation script [here](./scripts/install.sh) and run it on your end if you prefer.
        
        On ubuntu & similar you might need to install `curl` and `unzip` before running the installation script if you don't already have it:
        
        ```shell
        sudo apt-get install curl unzip
        ```
        
        Else, **minet** can be installed directly as a python CLI tool and library using pip:
        
        ```shell
        pip install minet
        ```
        
        If you need more help to install and use **minet** from scratch, you can check those [installation documents](./docs/install.md).
        
        Finally if you want to install the standalone binaries by yourself (even for windows) you can find them in each release [here](https://github.com/medialab/minet/releases).
        
        ## Upgrading
        
        To upgrade the standalone version, simply run the install script once again:
        
        ```shell
        curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/medialab/minet/master/scripts/install.sh | bash
        ```
        
        To upgrade the python version you can use pip thusly:
        
        ```shell
        pip install -U minet
        ```
        
        ## Uninstallation
        
        To uninstall the standalone version:
        
        ```shell
        curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/medialab/minet/master/scripts/uninstall.sh | bash
        ```
        
        To uninstall the python version:
        
        ```shell
        pip uninstall minet
        ```
        
        ## Cookbook
        
        To learn how to use **minet** and understand how it may fit your use cases, you should definitely check out our [Cookbook](./cookbook).
        
        ## Documentation
        
        * [minet as a command line tool](./docs/cli.md)
        * [minet as a python library](./docs/lib.md)
        
        ## Contributing
        
        To contribute to **minet** you can check out [this](./CONTRIBUTING.md) documentation.
        
        ## How to cite
        
        **minet** is published on [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/) as [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/169059797.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/169059797)
        
        You can cite it thusly:
        
        > Guillaume Plique, Pauline Breteau, Jules Farjas, Héloïse Théro, & Jean Descamps. (2019, October 14). Minet, a webmining CLI tool & library for python. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4564399
        
Keywords: webmining
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Requires-Python: >=3.6
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