progs/crawler3.scala
author Christian Urban <christian dot urban at kcl dot ac dot uk>
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:14:04 +0100
changeset 144 0cb61bed557d
parent 112 95ee5cc5c05d
child 242 35104ee14f87
permissions -rw-r--r--
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// This version of the crawler that also
// "harvests" email addresses from webpages

import io.Source
import scala.util.matching.Regex
import scala.util._

def get_page(url: String) : String = {
  Try(Source.fromURL(url).take(10000).mkString) getOrElse 
    { println(s"  Problem with: $url"); ""}
}

// regexes for URLs, for "my" domain and for email addresses
val http_pattern = """\"https?://[^\"]*\"""".r
val my_urls = """urbanc""".r
val email_pattern = """([a-z0-9_\.-]+)@([\da-z\.-]+)\.([a-z\.]{2,6})""".r

// The regular expression for emails comes from: 
//    http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/8-regular-expressions-you-should-know/

def unquote(s: String) = s.drop(1).dropRight(1)

def get_all_URLs(page: String) : Set[String] = {
  http_pattern.findAllIn(page).map(unquote).toSet
}

def crawl(url: String, n: Int) : Unit = {
  if (n == 0) ()
  //else if (my_urls.findFirstIn(url) == None) ()
  else {
    println(s"Visiting: $n $url")
    val page = get_page(url)
    println(email_pattern.findAllIn(page).mkString("\n"))
    for (u <- get_all_URLs(page)) crawl(u, n - 1)
  }
}

// staring URL for the crawler
val startURL = """http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/"""

crawl(startURL, 3)