# holgerd77/django-dynamic-scraper

Creating Scrapy scrapers via the Django admin interface

Repository: https://github.com/holgerd77/django-dynamic-scraper
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/django-dynamic-scraper
Homepage: http://django-dynamic-scraper.readthedocs.io
Language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: python, django, scraper, scraping, scrapy, spider, webscraping
Last push: 2022-02-19T21:12:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5374, "days_push": 1656, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1157, forks 300 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:48.296840+00:00)

## What it is
A Django app that builds on the Scrapy framework and lets you create and manage Scrapy spiders through the Django admin interface. It removes the need to hand-code spiders by defining scraping configurations as Django models.

## Use cases
- create scrapy spiders without writing code
- manage web scrapers from a django admin panel
- schedule recurring scraping of websites
- scrape structured data from web pages into a database
- build a scraping dashboard for non-developers

## When to choose
- you already use Django and want admin-managed scrapers
- you need many similar spiders configured via the UI
- you want scheduled, recurring scraping jobs stored in a database

## When to avoid
- you need a lightweight standalone scraper without Django
- you require heavily customized, code-driven spider logic
- you need a project with frequent recent releases

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, scheduling
- domain: crawlers, web-development
- platform: python
- tags: scrapy, django-admin, spider-management, scraping, automation, web-server

## Member repositories
- holgerd77/django-dynamic-scraper (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:48.296840+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 2026-08-30T06:32:02.609626+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/holgerd77/django-dynamic-scraper (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:48.296840+00:00, sha 42eaa113b709)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-dynamic-scraper/json (fetched 2026-08-29T12:37:29.183355+00:00, sha 150d1bfef428)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.