ezscrape

Offsite implementation of the yelp scraper for Distill

So, Yelp caught on to what we were doing with Distill on Heroku. This is our answer. It's a simple review scraper that can be hosted from a local IP which will ocmmunicate with Distill proper to grab reviews.

Isn't that cool?

Setup

1. Install from requirements.txt
2. Create a new db (default is ezscrape_db)
3. Run an rqworker with foreman run python manage.py rqworker
4. Run the server with foreman run python manage.py runserver
5. Make sure Distill can reach you!
6. ...
7. Profit!