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-## Maxon API
-
-
-### Local Setup 
-
-### Windows OS 
-
-1. Activate the virtual environment `venv\Scripts\Activate`
-2. To install dependencies, run `pip install -r requirements.txt`
-3. Run the command `uvicorn app.main:app --reload`
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diff --git a/api/src/main.py b/api/src/main.py
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-from fastapi import FastAPI
-from scrapy import signals
-from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess
-from scrapy.signalmanager import dispatcher
-from sample_spider import SampleSpider
-from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
-
-app = FastAPI()
-
-@asynccontextmanager
-async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
-   
-    dispatcher.connect(start_crawler, signal=signals.engine_started)
-    process = CrawlerProcess(settings={
-        'USffER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36'
-    })
-    process.crawl(SampleSpider)
-    process.start()
-
-def start_crawler():
-    
-    spider = SampleSpider()
-    crawler = CrawlerProcess()
-    crawler.crawl(spider)
-    crawler.start()
-
-@app.get("/scrape")
-async def scrape_endpoint():
-    # Add your API endpoint logic here
-    # Retrieve and return the scraped data
-    return {"message": "Scraping in progress. Check logs for details."}
diff --git a/api/src/sample_spider.py b/api/src/sample_spider.py
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-import scrapy
-
-class SampleSpider(scrapy.Spider):
-    name = 'SampleSpider'
-    start_urls = ['https://www.google.com/']
-
-    def parse(self, response):
-        print(response.body)
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