# scrapy/dirbot

Scrapy project to scrape public web directories (educational) [DEPRECATED]

Repository: https://github.com/scrapy/dirbot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dirbot
Language: Python
License Family: other
Last push: 2017-10-27T08:08:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5606, "days_push": 3232, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1628, forks 1042 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:13.256272+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-scraping
- domain: crawlers, developer-tools, education
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: scrapy, deprecated, example-project, tutorial, dmoz

## Member repositories
- scrapy/dirbot (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:13.256272+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:48:20.819272+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/scrapy/dirbot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:13.256272+00:00, sha a46137633518)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.