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webscrapercs

Webscraper written in c#

A video demonstration is available here : https://goo.gl/MLignN

Prerequisites

1. PostgreSQL

1. Install PostgreSQL 9.6.10 from this link : https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads

2. VS Code

1. Install VSCode from this link : https://code.visualstudio.com/

3. Git

1. Install git from this link : https://git-scm.com/downloads

4. PGAdmin III

1. Download PGAdmin III from this link : https://www.pgadmin.org/download/

2. Make sure you are able to connect to the database using PGAdmin III

Steps to install:

1. Clone this repo into a local folder using the following command : > git clone https://github.com/dc297/webscrapercs

2. A new folder named webscrapercs would be created.

3. Open PGAdmin III. Create a new database named webscrapercs

4. Right click on the newly created database and choose restore. PGAdmin III will ask you to select a file. Select webscrapercs.backup from the newly created folder. Click restore.

5. You should be able to see 11 new tables added to the database

6. Open the newly created folder in VS Code. There would be an option under file menu.

7. VS Code would automatically tell you that there are unresolved dependencies for the project and it'll ask you to add/restore them. Add/Restore those.

8. Copy the sample.config to App.config and update the details of your PostgreSQL installation in App.config.

9. Open a new terminal in VS Code from the terminal menu and execute > dotnet run

10. That's it. You should be able to see the parser logs in the terminal. And new entries would be added in the url, property and propertytype talbles in the database. You can check the new data using PGAdmin III.

Steps to configure the scrapper to save the value in aws

1. In the app.config file change the AWSProfilesLocation(location of the credentials file to the location where you have saved the credentials file in your laptop)

2. In the app.config file also change the DatabaseConnection property to aws

3. If you want to connect to the local database then update the above property to local

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