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# What is BlockchainSpider?

BlockchainSpider is a tool for blockchain data collection based on `Scrapy` .

With BlockchainSpider, you can sample the transactions related to the specific source address, crawl the label data, and more you will be interested in data mining on the blockchain.

* **Transaction subgraph**: the transaction subgraph related to the specific source account
* **Label data**: the labels of addresses or transactions
* **Block data**: the block data on chains
* ...

## Getting Started

Let's start with the following command:

```
git clone https://github.com/wuzhy1ng/BlockchainSpider.git
```

And then install the dependencies:

```
pip install scrapy
pip install selenium
pip install networkx
```

That's great! So far, you have made all the preparations for starting the BlockchainSpider!

## Guides: Jump right in

Follow our handy guides to get started on the basics as quickly as possible:

{% content-ref url="/pages/5QOMc8znjcbYo1pNeSZR" %}
[Crawl a transaction subgraph](/blockchainspider/guides/crawl-a-transaction-subgraph.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/3sx11knoKxakszF2bTTF" %}
[Collect label data](/blockchainspider/guides/collect-label-data.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}