I’m Ben and I lead the OpenAustralia Foundation - the charity behind Morph. I understand this post is quite old, and I hope you don’t mind the very late reply.
Morph is not dead, but I agree it hasn’t been given the love it deserves.
We primarily use Morph with Ruby scrapers, and Python support has fallen behind due to limited resources. Getting Python working properly involves an OS upgrade and significant code changes – it’s real work.
That said, Morph is open source and we’d welcome contributions:
- GitHub - openaustralia/morph: Take the hassle out of web scraping · GitHub
- GitHub - openaustralia/buildstep: Buildstep uses Docker and Buildpacks to build applications like Heroku · GitHub
There’s a bit more of a technical discussion around the issues here.
If you’d like to support the work financially:
If you represent an organisation that could provide ongoing funding, feel free to reach out to me directly and we can discuss further.