progs/crawler2.scala
author Christian Urban <christian dot urban at kcl dot ac dot uk>
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:36:24 +0100
changeset 100 cbc2270c2938
parent 96 9fcd3de53c06
child 101 4758a6155878
permissions -rw-r--r--
updated progs

// This version of the crawler only
// checks links in the "domain" urbanc

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

// gets the first ~10K of a page
def get_page(url: String) : String = {
  Try(Source.fromURL(url).take(10000).mkString) getOrElse 
    { println(s"  Problem with: $url"); ""}
}

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

// regex for URLs
val http_pattern = """\"https?://[^\"]*\"""".r
val my_urls = """urbanc""".r

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

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

// naive version - seraches until a given depth
// visits pages potentially more than once
def crawl(url: String, n: Int) : Unit = {
  if (n == 0) ()
  //else if (my_urls.findFirstIn(url) == None) ()
  else {
    println(s"Visiting: $n $url")
    for (u <- get_all_URLs(get_page(url))) crawl(u, n - 1)
  }
}

// can now deal with depth 3
// start on command line
crawl(startURL, 4)

crawl("""http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/bsc-projects-13.html""", 2)