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Lab needs a crawler to download some assets, none of my business though
But why not
Haven't touched crawler for two years
Google for latest state of art
Found scrapy
I have to define a class for a crawling script?
Got scared
Went back to beautifulsoup and request
Got the job done in 20 mins
Fuck yeah
rant