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Fork and refactor project for scraping macserialjunkie.com: add a new phpBB spider (uses python-dotenv for credentials, form login enabled, multiple start_urls, robust ID/time/text extraction and pagination) and an SQLitePipeline that saves posts to posts.db with a tqdm progress bar. Update settings to use the SQLite pipeline, increase concurrency, reduce download delay, disable robots.txt, set JOBDIR for resume and silence logs; add .env.example and .python-version, update README and requirements (add tqdm), tidy .gitignore, and add pyproject.toml. Also reorganize package layout (rename/move phpBB_scraper modules), remove legacy pipeline and old spider implementations, and add a dependency lock file (uv.lock).
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# phpBB Forum Scraper
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This is a fork of [phpBB-forum-scraper](https://github.com/Dascienz/phpBB-forum-scraper/) customized for scraping [macserialjunkie.com](https://macserialjunkie.com/).
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Python-based web scraper for phpBB forums. Project can be used as a template for building your own
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custom Scrapy spiders or for one-off crawls on designated forums. Please keep in mind that aggressive crawls
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can produce significant strain on web servers, so please throttle your request rates.
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## Requirements:
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1. Python web scraping library, [Scrapy](http://scrapy.org/).
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2. Python HTML/XML parsing library, [BeautifulSoup](https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/).
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## Scraper Output
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The phpBB.py spider scrapes the following information from forum posts:
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1. Username
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2. User Post Count
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3. Post Date & Time
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4. Post Text
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5. Quoted Text
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If you need additional data scraped, you will have to create additional spiders or edit the existing spider.
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## Edit `phpBB.py` and Specify:
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1. `allowed_domains`
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2. `start_urls`
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3. `username` & `password`
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4. `forum_login=False` or `forum_login=True`
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## Running the Scraper:
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```bash
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cd phpBB_scraper/
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scrapy crawl phpBB
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uv run scrapy crawl phpBB -s JOBDIR=crawls/resume-002
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```
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NOTE: Please adjust `settings.py` to throttle your requests. |