Is spider-crawler still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change 2 days ago. Latest release v0.4.0, 2 days ago.

Can I trust spider-crawler?

New, little track record. 5 stars, 1 months old. Look at the code and the owner before running it.

How to install on Windows

lulu38m/spider-crawler

🕷️ A literal web crawler: drop a document or a link, watch a spider read it, get the gist. Procedural animation, 100% in your browser.

Node.jsVite#canvas#creative-coding#pdf#procedural-animation

Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (MIT).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change 2 days ago. Latest release v0.4.0, 2 days ago.
Can I trust it?: New, little track record5 stars, 1 months old. Look at the code and the owner before running it.

Difficulty: Easy
Time: about 5 min
Stars: ★ 5
Activity: Updated this month

Saved setup from 2 h ago

Will it work on Windows?

Yes, with Docker on Windows

It's a self-hosted app: the README runs it with Docker, and you open it in your browser.
On Windows that means installing Docker Desktop first.

Your system

macOS Windows Linux

Start here

Website ↗lulu38m.github.ioThe project's own site.

Run it with Docker

A self-hosted app: Docker runs it on your computer and you open it in the browser. Needs Docker Desktop (or Docker Engine on Linux). Run docker compose commands inside the cloned repo folder.

Docker

docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/lulu38m/spider-crawler

From the README, exactly as the maintainers wrote it.

Did you get it running?

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Parts list

1×Node.js >=22runtime
1×npm package manager

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Good to know

Dockerfile available (base image: node:22-alpine).

Details

License: MIT
Open issues: 1
Branch: main

package.json scripts (9)

devvite
buildtsc --noEmit && vite build
previewvite preview
typechecktsc --noEmit
testvitest run
test:watchvitest
demo:rendernode scripts/render-demo.mjs
startnode bin/spider-crawler.mjs
prepublishOnlynpm test && npm run build

Files we read (7)

.github/workflows/ci.yml

.github/workflows/deploy.yml

.github/workflows/release.yml

CONTRIBUTING.md

Dockerfile

README.md

package.json

108 files in the repo

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lulu38m/spider-crawler

🕷️ A literal web crawler: drop a document or a link, watch a spider read it, get the gist. Procedural animation, 100% in your browser.

Node.jsVite#canvas#creative-coding#pdf#procedural-animation

Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (MIT).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change 2 days ago. Latest release v0.4.0, 2 days ago.
Can I trust it?: New, little track record5 stars, 1 months old. Look at the code and the owner before running it.

Yes, with Docker on Windows

Start here

Run it with Docker

Did you get it running?

Still stuck? Get a written guide

More like spider-crawler that run on Windows

Yes, with Docker on Windows

Start here

Run it with Docker

Did you get it running?

Still stuck? Get a written guide

More like spider-crawler that run on Windows