scrapy/dirbot resource
Scrapy project to scrape public web directories (educational) [DEPRECATED] observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5606
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 3232
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1628 stars · 1042 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A deprecated educational Scrapy example project that scraped the public DMOZ web directory. It was retired in March 2017 when dmoz.org shut down, and users are directed to scrapy/quotesbot instead.
Use cases
- learn how to build a scrapy spider
- example project for scraping web directories
- getting started with scrapy tutorial code
- see how to structure a scrapy project
- learn web crawling with python
When to choose
- you are studying historical scrapy example code
- you need a reference for the old dmoz-based scrapy tutorial
When to avoid
- you want an up-to-date scrapy learning project (use scrapy/quotesbot)
- you need to scrape dmoz.org (the site no longer exists)
- you need a maintained production scraping tool
Facets
learning-resource · maturity abandoned
web-scraping crawlers developer-tools education python cross-platform scrapy deprecated example-project tutorial dmoz
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/scrapy/dirbot · fetched 2026-08-28 · a46137633518
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| scrapy/dirbot | main | 32 |
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