Ankit-rana/tiny-search-engine

This is implementation of a tiny search engine in Python.

tiny-search-engine

This is implementation of a tiny search engine in Python.

This project contains 2 branches:

master branch: synchronous code

async_version branch: asyncio code

This project have 3 parts:

Universal Crawler

This module is responsible for taking baseURL as input and crawling to other URL's associated with the baseURL until the given depth. it then returns the crawled websites data in the form of html file stored in the destination provided by the user.

Indexer

This module is responsible for indexing the crawled data for the query engine to search and return the desired result.

Query Engine

This module is responsible to take the search string as an input,look up in the indexer to return the document id and URL in descending order based on their occurance.

Steps to execute the modules:

Crawler sudo python crawler.py <baseURL> <Destination> <Depth>

Indexer sudo python indexer.py <target_directory> <Output_filename>

Query Engine sudo python queryEngine.py <Enter string to be searched>