This is a simple web crawler I wrote to test websites and links. It will traverse all links found to any given depth.
See --help for usage.
I'm posting this recipe as this kind of problem has been asked on the Python Mailing List a number of times... I thought I'd share my simple little implementation based on the standard library and BeautifulSoup.
--JamesMills
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"""Web Crawler/Spider
This module implements a web crawler. This is very _basic_ only
and needs to be extended to do anything usefull with the
traversed pages.
"""
import re
import sys
import time
import math
import urllib2
import urlparse
import optparse
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
__version__ = "0.1"
__copyright__ = "CopyRight (C) 2008 by James Mills"
__license__ = "GPL"
__author__ = "James Mills"
__author_email__ = "James Mills, James dot Mills st dotred dot com dot au"
USAGE = "%prog [options] <url>"
VERSION = "%prog v" + __version__
AGENT = "%s/%s" % (__name__, __version__)
def encodeHTML(s=""):
"""encodeHTML(s) -> str
Encode HTML special characters from their ASCII form to
HTML entities.
"""
return s.replace("&", "&") \
.replace("<", "<") \
.replace(">", ">") \
.replace("\"", """) \
.replace("'", "'") \
.replace("--", "&mdash")
class Queue(object):
def __init__(self, size=None):
super(Queue, self).__init__()
self._queue = []
self._size = size
def __len__(self):
return len(self._queue)
def __getitem__(self, n):
if (not self.empty()) and (0 <= (n + 1) <= len(self._queue)):
return self._queue[(len(self._queue) - (n + 1))]
else:
raise StopIteration
def push(self, item):
self._queue.insert(0, item)
if self._size is not None:
self._queue = self._queue[:self._size]
def get(self, n=0, remove=False):
if (not self.empty()) and (0 <= (n + 1) <= len(self._queue)):
r = self._queue[(len(self._queue) - (n + 1))]
if remove:
del self._queue[(len(self._queue) - (n + 1))]
return r
else:
return None
def pop(self, n=0):
return self.get(n, True)
def peek(self, n=0):
return self.get(n)
def top(self):
return self.peek()
def bottom(self):
return self.peek(len(self) - 1)
def empty(self):
return self._queue == []
def size(self):
return self._size
def full(self):
return len(self) == self.size()
class Crawler(object):
def __init__(self, root, depth, locked=True):
self.root = root
self.depth = depth
self.locked = locked
self.host = urlparse.urlparse(root)[1]
self.links = 0
self.followed = 0
def crawl(self):
page = Fetcher(self.root)
page.fetch()
urls = Queue()
for url in page.urls:
urls.push(url)
followed = [self.root]
n = 0
while not urls.empty():
n += 1
url = urls.pop()
if url not in followed:
try:
host = urlparse.urlparse(url)[1]
if self.locked and re.match(".*%s" % self.host, host):
followed.append(url)
self.followed += 1
page = Fetcher(url)
page.fetch()
for i, url in enumerate(page):
if url not in urls:
self.links += 1
urls.push(url)
if n > self.depth and self.depth > 0:
break
except Exception, error:
print "Warning: Can't process url '%s'" % url
class Fetcher(object):
def __init__(self, url):
self.url = url
self.urls = []
def __contains__(self, x):
return x in self.urls
def __getitem__(self, x):
return self.urls[x]
def _addHeaders(self, request):
request.add_header("User-Agent", AGENT)
def open(self):
url = self.url
print "Following %s" % url
try:
request = urllib2.Request(url)
handle = urllib2.build_opener()
except IOError:
return None
return (request, handle)
def fetch(self):
request, handle = self.open()
self._addHeaders(request)
if handle:
soup = BeautifulSoup()
try:
content = unicode(handle.open(request).read(), errors="ignore")
soup.feed(content)
tags = soup('a')
except urllib2.HTTPError, error:
if error.code == 404:
print >> sys.stderr, "ERROR: %s -> %s" % (error, error.url)
else:
print >> sys.stderr, "ERROR: %s" % error
tags = []
except urllib2.URLError, error:
print >> sys.stderr, "ERROR: %s" % error
tags = []
for tag in tags:
try:
href = tag["href"]
if href is not None:
url = urlparse.urljoin(self.url, encodeHTML(href))
if url not in self:
print " Found: %s" % url
self.urls.append(url)
except KeyError:
pass
def getLinks(url):
page = Fetcher(url)
page.fetch()
for i, url in enumerate(page):
print "%d. %s" % (i, url)
def parse_options():
"""parse_options() -> opts, args
Parse any command-line options given returning both
the parsed options and arguments.
"""
parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=USAGE, version=VERSION)
parser.add_option("-q", "--quiet",
action="store_true", default=False, dest="quiet",
help="Enable quiet mode")
parser.add_option("-l", "--links",
action="store_true", default=False, dest="links",
help="Get links for specified url only")
parser.add_option("-d", "--depth",
action="store", type="int", default=30, dest="depth",
help="Maximum depth to traverse")
opts, args = parser.parse_args()
if len(args) < 1:
parser.print_help()
raise SystemExit, 1
return opts, args
def main():
opts, args = parse_options()
url = args[0]
if opts.links:
getLinks(url)
raise SystemExit, 0
depth = opts.depth
sTime = time.time()
print "Crawling %s (Max Depth: %d)" % (url, depth)
crawler = Crawler(url, depth)
crawler.crawl()
eTime = time.time()
tTime = eTime - sTime
print "Found: %d" % crawler.links
print "Followed: %d" % crawler.followed
print "Stats: (%d/s after %0.2fs)" % (
int(math.ceil(float(crawler.links) / tTime)), tTime)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
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Comments
Hello,
Why don't you use the standard Python Queue module ?
http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-Queue.html
There's also cgi.escape instead of your encodeHTML function.
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