Spider

Web spider framework that can spider a domain and collect pages it visits.

Depensencies

$ apt install openssl libssl-dev

Usage

from source for command line usages

$ git clone https://github.com/madeindjs/spider.git
$ cd spider
$ cargo build --release
$ ./target/debug/rust-crawler http://localhost:4000

Will produce something like this

- http://localhost:4000/
- http://localhost:4000/portfolio
- http://localhost:4000/resume
- http://localhost:4000/blog

as crate for librairy usage

Add this dependency to your Cargo.toml file.

[dependencies]
spider = "1.0.2"

and then you'll be able to use library. Here a simple example

extern crate spider;

use spider::website::Website;

fn main() {
    let mut localhost = Website::new("http://localhost:4000");
    localhost.crawl();

    for page in localhost.get_pages() {
        println!("- {}", page.get_url());
    }
}

TODO

• [ ]: multi-threaded system
• [ ]: respect robot.txt file
• [ ]: add configuratioon object for polite delay, etc..
• [ ]: parse command line arguments

Contribute

I am open-minded to any contribution. Just fork & commit on another branch.