Downloader Components: Toggle instead of removing

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by tracing the downloader system, including its URL classes and parser packages, to understand how components are currently added and removed. Define how individual components would be enabled or disabled and how mixed or duplicate parser versions should behave; done means users can toggle components and test partial downloader configurations.

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Description

feature-request system:downloading

I would like to be able to enable and disable various components of the downloader system, rather than having to add and remove them. Sometimes for whatever reason I get duplicate url classes and or parsers because something about a website has changed, but then sometimes some of its components still work and only part of the parser package needs to be updated, resulting in a weird mishmash of bits since there really isn't a surefire way to upgrade parsers right now.

When this happens it would be nice if I could just turn part of the system off and run some tests to see whether the components are necessary or outdated/broken. This would probably also be nice for parser development.

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