import io.Source
import scala.util.matching.Regex
// gets the first ~10K of a page
def get_page(url: String) : String = {
try {
Source.fromURL(url).take(10000).mkString
}
catch {
case e => {
println(" Problem with: " + url)
""
}
}
}
// regex for URLs
val http_pattern = """\"https?://[^\"]*\"""".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 {
println("Visiting: " + n + " " + url)
for (u <- get_all_URLs(get_page(url))) crawl(u, n - 1)
}
}
// staring URL for the crawler
val startURL = """http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/"""
//val startURL = """http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/mml/"""
// call on the command line
crawl(startURL, 2)
crawl("""http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/msc-projects-12.html""", 2)