Lookyloo is a web interface allowing to scrape a website and then displays a tree of domains calling each other.
1. People who just come to look.
2. People who go out of their way to look at people or something often causing crowds and more disruption.
3. People who enjoy staring at watching other peoples misfortune. Oftentimes car onlookers to car accidents.
Same as Looky Lou; often spelled as Looky-loo (hyphen) or lookylou
In L.A. usually the lookyloo's cause more accidents by not paying full attention to what is ahead of them.
Source: Urban Dictionary
This code is very heavily inspired by webplugin and adapted to use flask as backend.
The core dependency is ETE Toolkit, which you can install following the guide on the official website
Note: all the PyQt4 dependencies are optional.
You need a running splash instance, preferably on docker
sudo apt install docker.io
sudo docker pull scrapinghub/splash
sudo docker run -p 8050:8050 -p 5023:5023 scrapinghub/splash --disable-ui --disable-lua
# On a server with a decent abount of RAM, you may want to run it this way:
# sudo docker run -p 8050:8050 -p 5023:5023 scrapinghub/splash --disable-ui -s 100 --disable-lua -m 50000
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
wget https://d3js.org/d3.v5.min.js -O lookyloo/static/d3.v5.min.js
wget https://cdn.rawgit.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/5733e40e5af936eb3f48554cf6a8a7075d71d18a/FileSaver.js -O lookyloo/static/FileSaver.js
export FLASK_APP=lookyloo
flask run
pip install uwsgi
You have to configure the two following files:
etc/nginx/sites-available/lookyloo
etc/systemd/system/lookyloo.service
And copy them to the appropriate directories and run the following command:
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/lookyloo /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
If needed, remove the default site
sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
Make sure everything is working:
sudo systemctl start lookyloo
sudo systemctl enable lookyloo
sudo nginx -t
# If it is cool:
sudo service nginx restart
And you can open http://<IP-or-domain>/
Now, you should configure TLS (let's encrypt and so on)
The repository includes a Dockerfile for building a containerized instance of the app.
Lookyloo stores the scraped data in /lookyloo/scraped. If you want to persist the scraped data between runs it is sufficient to define a volume for this directory.
Additionally you can start a complete setup, including the necessary Docker instance of splashy, by using Docker Compose and the included service definition in docker-compose.yml by running
docker-compose up
After building and startup is complete lookyloo should be available at http://localhost:5000/
If you want to persist the data between different runs uncomment the "volumes" definition in the last two lines of docker-compose.yml and define a data storage directory in your Docker host system there.