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jrmeyer/web-corpus

Analysis updated 2026-07-17 · repo last pushed 2022-04-05

★ 4PythonAudience · researcherComplexity · 2/5DormantSetup · easy

TLDR

A Python command-line crawler that starts from a seed URL and extracts readable text from a website into a saved file.

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    What it does
      Crawl a website
      Extract text
      Save to file
    Tech stack
      Python
    Use cases
      Build training data
      Research text corpora
      Content analysis
    Audience
      Researchers
      AI model builders

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Collect a text dataset from a website for language research.

USE CASE 2

Gather training material for an AI model from a set of web pages.

USE CASE 3

Analyze the text content of a competitor's site or blog collection.

USE CASE 4

Build a corpus without manually copying text page by page.

What is it built with?

Python

How does it compare?

jrmeyer/web-corpusadeliox/klein-head-swapats4321/ragit
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LanguagePythonPythonPython
Last pushed2022-04-05——
MaintenanceDormant——
Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity2/53/52/5
Audienceresearcherdesignerdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

README doesn't specify whether it respects robots.txt or rate limits, check the code before scraping.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Run this web-corpus tool with a seed URL and save the extracted text to a file, showing verbose link output.
Prompt 2
Explain how this crawler decides which links to follow versus skip while extracting text.
Prompt 3
Help me modify this script to respect robots.txt while crawling a website.
Prompt 4
Show me how to point this tool at a list of blogs to build a text corpus for research.

Frequently asked questions

What is web-corpus?

A Python command-line crawler that starts from a seed URL and extracts readable text from a website into a saved file.

What language is web-corpus written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python.

Is web-corpus actively maintained?

Dormant — no commits in 2+ years (last push 2022-04-05).

How hard is web-corpus to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is web-corpus for?

Mainly researcher.

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