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oyster 0.3.2 (beta)
a proactive document cache

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version 0.3.2 on May 23rd, 2012

oyster is a service for tracking regularly-accessed pages, a sort of proactive cache.

Oyster intends to provide a command line client for interacting with the list of tracked documents and web frontend for viewing the status and retrieving data. Behind the scenes it uses a celery queue to manage the documents it is tasked with keeping up to date.

oyster was created by James Turk for Sunlight Labs.

Source is available via GitHub

Installation

oyster is available on PyPI: oyster.

The recommended way to install oyster is to simply pip install oyster

Requirements
  • python 2.7
  • mongodb 2.0
  • pymongo 2.0
  • scrapelib 0.5+

Usage

  • Run celeryd with beat celeryd -B --config=oyster.celeryconfig
  • Run oyster HTTP portal python oyster/web.py
  • Use oyster.client.Client to add new documents & query the store

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Last updated May 23rd, 2012

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