Does Pholcus have a graphical user interface or is it command-line only?

Pholcus is a distributed, high concurrency, and powerful web crawler software written in the Go language. It is primarily designed to run as a command-line tool, which can be operated using various command-line instructions to control the crawler behavior.

Pholcus does not come with a built-in graphical user interface (GUI). However, it does provide a web GUI project which can be used alongside Pholcus to manage the crawling tasks through a web browser interface. This web GUI is separate from the core Pholcus project and can be found under the Pholcus GUI repository (pholcus-gui).

To use Pholcus with a GUI, you typically have to:

1. Set up the Pholcus crawler by downloading or cloning the repository from GitHub and following the installation instructions.
2. Set up the Pholcus GUI by downloading or cloning its repository and following the setup instructions provided there.

For instance, to get started with Pholcus (command-line version), you would do something like this in your command line:

# Clone the Pholcus repository
git clone https://github.com/henrylee2cn/pholcus.git

# Go to the Pholcus directory
cd pholcus

# Build the project
go build

For the GUI part, you would follow the specific instructions provided by the pholcus-gui project, which usually involve setting up a web server that serves the GUI and connects to the Pholcus backend.

Remember that working with Go-based projects like Pholcus requires a working Go environment. You'll need to have Go installed on your system and properly configured with the GOPATH environment variable.

It's important to note that the availability and functionality of third-party GUIs can vary, and they may not always be kept up-to-date with the latest changes in Pholcus. For those reasons, it's always a good idea to check the official Pholcus GitHub page or associated documentation for the most current information regarding GUI support.

If you're looking for web scraping tools with more robust and maintained GUIs, you might want to consider other options like Scrapy with Portia, Octoparse, or WebHarvy, depending on your requirements and technical expertise.