#WebCollector WebCollector is an open source web crawler framework based on Java.It provides some simple interfaces for crawling the Web,you can setup a multi-threaded web crawler in less than 5 minutes.
##HomePage https://github.com/CrawlScript/WebCollector
##Installation
To use the latest release of WebCollector, please use the following snippet in your pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>cn.edu.hfut.dmic.webcollector</groupId>
<artifactId>WebCollector</artifactId>
<version>2.09</version>
</dependency>WebCollector jars are available on the HomePage.
- webcollector-version-bin.zip contains core jars.
##Quickstart Lets crawl some news from yahoo.This demo prints out the titles and contents extracted from news of yahoo.
import cn.edu.hfut.dmic.webcollector.crawler.BreadthCrawler;
import cn.edu.hfut.dmic.webcollector.model.Links;
import cn.edu.hfut.dmic.webcollector.model.Page;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
/**
* Crawl news from yahoo news
*
* @author hu
*/
public class YahooCrawler extends BreadthCrawler {
/**
* @param crawlPath crawlPath is the path of the directory which maintains
* information of this crawler
* @param autoParse if autoParse is true,BreadthCrawler will auto extract
* links which match regex rules from pag
*/
public YahooCrawler(String crawlPath, boolean autoParse) {
super(crawlPath, autoParse);
/*start page*/
this.addSeed("http://news.yahoo.com/");
/*fetch url like http://news.yahoo.com/xxxxx*/
this.addRegex("http://news.yahoo.com/.*");
/*do not fetch url like http://news.yahoo.com/xxxx/xxx)*/
this.addRegex("-http://news.yahoo.com/.+/.*");
/*do not fetch jpg|png|gif*/
this.addRegex("-.*\\.(jpg|png|gif).*");
/*do not fetch url contains #*/
this.addRegex("-.*#.*");
}
@Override
public void visit(Page page, Links nextLinks) {
String url = page.getUrl();
/*if page is news page*/
if (Pattern.matches("http://news.yahoo.com/.+html", url)) {
/*we use jsoup to parse page*/
Document doc = page.getDoc();
/*extract title and content of news by css selector*/
String title = doc.select("h1[class=headline]").first().text();
String content = doc.select("div[class=body yom-art-content clearfix]").first().text();
System.out.println("URL:\n" + url);
System.out.println("title:\n" + title);
System.out.println("content:\n" + content);
/*If you want to add urls to crawl,add them to nextLinks*/
/*WebCollector automatically filters links that have been fetched before*/
/*If autoParse is true and the link you add to nextLinks does not match the regex rules,the link will also been filtered.*/
// nextLinks.add("http://xxxxxx.com");
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
YahooCrawler crawler = new YahooCrawler("crawl", true);
crawler.setThreads(50);
crawler.setTopN(100);
//crawler.setResumable(true);
/*start crawl with depth of 4*/
crawler.start(4);
}
}
##Content Extraction WebCollector could automatically extract content from news web-pages:
News news = ContentExtractor.getNewsByHtml(html, url);
News news = ContentExtractor.getNewsByHtml(html);
News news = ContentExtractor.getNewsByUrl(url);
String content = ContentExtractor.getContentByHtml(html, url);
String content = ContentExtractor.getContentByHtml(html);
String content = ContentExtractor.getContentByUrl(url);
Element contentElement = ContentExtractor.getContentElementByHtml(html, url);
Element contentElement = ContentExtractor.getContentElementByHtml(html);
Element contentElement = ContentExtractor.getContentElementByUrl(url);
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