progs/crawler2.scala
author Christian Urban <christian dot urban at kcl dot ac dot uk>
Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:24:38 +0000
changeset 185 ea8b94d4755e
parent 116 010ae7288327
child 242 35104ee14f87
permissions -rw-r--r--
added

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

// regexes for URLs and "my" domain
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
}

def crawl(url: String, n: Int) : Unit = {
  if (n == 0) ()
  else if (my_urls.findFirstIn(url) == None) { 
    println(s"Visiting: $n $url")
    get_page(url); () 
  }
  else {
    println(s"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/"""

// can now deal with depth 3 and beyond
crawl(startURL, 3)