bloomberg hack

Project requirement

Build a crawler to store all the plain article text from www.bloomberg.com in mongodb

How to run

To start the daemon ::

$ python bloomhack.py start

this will start inserting the articles to the database(Assuming the mongodb database is running). It will log the data inserted to the database in a file named bloomhack.log.

To stop the daemon ::

$ python bloomhack.py stop

Press [ctrl]+c to stop the process.

Example run

$ python bloomhack.py start
PID: 3418 Daemon started successfully
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$ python bloomhack.py stop
Daemon killed succesfully
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