- as I said in another post I'm working on a medical search engine part time. It hasn't been easy especially seeing as a lot of stuff is in the cloud now and offline databases are becoming more rare. The following is the code for a very simple mass downloader:
- description is as follows:
# I need to build a mass downloader for a medical search engine
# prototype that I want to work on. This is a very simple prototype
# that I think may work as the basis for further development. If
# you're wondering this is simpler then a lot of crawlers/downloaders
# out there which means it may miss out on some files but is generally
# much quicker.
#
# If you're wondering yes there are other options then this but most
# have their own set of problems. I can't use something like Selenium,
# Sikuli, wget, etc... because they're inefficient, require use of GUI,
# download everything before actually accepting/rejecting files, etc...
# This will work for a basic prototype. If I need something more I can
# always built out and upwards
#
# As this is the very first version of the program it may be VERY buggy.
# Please test prior to deployment in a production environment.
- this post obviously has relevance to the following:
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/07/data-miningbig-dataautomated-analysis.html
- this post obviously has relevance to the following:
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/07/data-miningbig-dataautomated-analysis.html
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