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jrmeyer/web-corpus — explained in plain English

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

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

tl;dr

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 make with this?

VIBE 1

Collect a text dataset from a website for language research.

VIBE 2

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

VIBE 3

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

VIBE 4

Build a corpus without manually copying text page by page.

what's the stack?

Python

how it stacks up fr

jrmeyer/web-corpusadeliox/klein-head-swapats4321/ragit
Stars444
LanguagePythonPythonPython
Last pushed2022-04-05——
MaintenanceDormant——
Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity2/53/52/5
Audienceresearcherdesignerdeveloper

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how do i run it?

Difficulty · easy time til it works · 5min

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

prompts (copy fr)

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 fr?

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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