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-# async-rust-scraper
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+# Async Rust Web Scraping Project
+
+This project is a Rust-based web scraping application designed to efficiently fetch, parse, and store data from web pages. It utilizes modern Rust async features, robust error handling, and supports multiple database backends.
+
+## Features
+
+- **Asynchronous Web Scraping**: Fast data retrieval and processing using `reqwest` and `tokio`.
+- **HTML Parsing**: Extract data seamlessly using the `scraper` library.
+- **Flexible Data Storage**: Supports SQLite, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
+- **Rate Limiting**: Built-in rate limiting to respect website request policies.
+- **Error Handling**: Comprehensive error management to handle network and parsing errors gracefully.
+- **Deployment Ready**: Containerized setup for easy deployment.
+- **Monitoring**: Integrated logging and monitoring setup.
+
+## Getting Started
+
+These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.
+
+### Prerequisites
+
+What you need to install the software:
+
+- Rust Programming Language
+- Cargo (Rust's package manager)
+- Docker (optional, for containerization)
+- Access to one of the supported databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, or Redis)
+
+### Installation
+
+1. **Clone the repository**
+
+   ```bash
+   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/rust-web-scraper.git
+   cd rust-web-scraper