/cosr-back

Backend of Common Search. Analyses webpages and sends them to the index.

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This repository contains the main components of the Common Search backend.

Your help is welcome! We have a complete guide on how to contribute.

Understand the project

This repository has 4 components:

  • cosrlib: Python code for parsing, analyzing and indexing documents
  • spark: Spark jobs using cosrlib.
  • urlserver: A service for getting metadata about URLs from static databases
  • explainer: A web service for explaining and debugging results, hosted at explain.commonsearch.org

Here is how they fit in our general architecture:

General technical architecture of Common Search

Local install

A complete guide available in INSTALL.md.

Launching the tests

Before running the tests, you have to start Elasticsearch and other services they depend on:

make start_services
make docker_test

You may also want to run only part of the tests, for instance all which do not use Elasticsearch. To do that you should enter the container first:

make docker_shell
py.test tests/ -v -m "not elasticsearch"

If you want to evaluate the speed of a component, for instance HTML parsing, you can repeat the tests N times and output a Python profile:

make docker_shell
py.test tests/cosrlibtests/document/html/ -v --repeat 50 --profile

Launching an index job

make docker_shell
spark-submit spark/jobs/pipeline.py --source commoncrawl:limit=1 --plugin plugins.filter.Homepages:index_body=1 --profile

After this, if you have a cosr-front instance connected to the same Elasticsearch service, you will see the results!

Using plugins

Common Search supports the insertion of user-provided plugins in the indexation pipeline. Some are included by default, for instance:

make docker_shell
spark-submit spark/jobs/pipeline.py --source url:https://about.commonsearch.org/ --plugin plugins.grep.Words:words=common search,path=/tmp/grep_result

See the plugins/ directory for more examples.

Launching the explainer

The explainer allows you to debug results easily. Just run:

make docker_explainer

Then open http://192.168.99.100:9703 in your browser (Assuming 192.168.99.100 is the IP of your Docker host)