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Life & fun · January 25, 2016

A modular, durable web-crawler for Clojure

:racehorse:✈️ Pegasus is a scalable, modular, polite web-crawler for Clojure - shriphani/pegasus

A modular, durable web-crawler for Clojure launched on January 25, 2016 with 29 votes, #1,962 of 4,522 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

In plain words

Pegasus is a web-crawler library for Clojure developers that emphasizes modularity and durability. It enables users to build scalable crawling systems while respecting server resources through polite behavior. The tool is designed for developers who need to systematically extract data from websites within a functional programming framework.

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