Spider

Multithreaded async crawler/indexer using isolates and IPC channels for communication with the ability to run decentralized.

Dependencies

On Linux

• OpenSSL 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, or 1.1.1

Example

This is a basic async example crawling a web page, add spider to your Cargo.toml:

toml [dependencies] spider = "1.32.3"

And then the code:

```rust,no_run extern crate spider;

use spider::website::Website; use spider::tokio;

[tokio::main]

async fn main() { let url = "https://choosealicense.com"; let mut website: Website = Website::new(&url); website.crawl().await;

for link in website.get_links() {
    println!("- {:?}", link.as_ref());
}

} ```

You can use Configuration object to configure your crawler:

```rust // .. let mut website: Website = Website::new("https://choosealicense.com");

website.configuration.respectrobotstxt = true; website.configuration.subdomains = true; website.configuration.tld = false; website.configuration.delay = 0; // Defaults to 0 ms due to concurrency handling website.configuration.requesttimeout = None; // Defaults to 15000 ms website.configuration.http2priorknowledge = false; // Enable if you know the webserver supports http2 website.configuration.channelbuffer = 100; // Defaults to 50 - tune this depending on onlinkfindcallback website.configuration.useragent = Some("myapp/version".into()); // Defaults to using a random agent website.onlinkfindcallback = Some(|s| { println!("link target: {}", s); s }); // Callback to run on each link find website.configuration.blacklisturl.getorinsert(Default::default()).push("https://choosealicense.com/licenses/".into()); website.configuration.proxies.getorinsert(Default::default()).push("socks5://10.1.1.1:12345".into()); // Defaults to none - proxy list.

website.crawl().await; ```

Features

We have a couple optional feature flags. Regex blacklisting, jemaloc backend, globbing, fs temp storage, decentralization, serde, gathering full assets, and randomizing user agents.

toml [dependencies] spider = { version = "1.32.3", features = ["regex", "ua_generator"] }

1. ua_generator: Enables auto generating a random real User-Agent. Enabled by default.
2. regex: Enables blacklisting paths with regx
3. jemalloc: Enables the jemalloc memory backend.
4. decentralized: Enables decentralized processing of IO, requires the [spider_worker] startup before crawls.
5. control: Enables the ability to pause, start, and shutdown crawls on demand.
6. full_resources: Enables gathering all content that relates to the domain like css,jss, and etc.
7. serde: Enables serde serialization support.
8. socks: Enables socks5 proxy support.
9. glob: Enables url glob support.
10. fs: Enables storing resources to disk for parsing (may greatly increases performance at the cost of temp storage). Enabled by default.
11. js: Enables javascript parsing links created with the dom (Alpha-Experimental). You need to use the env variable RUST_MIN_STACK=9999999 or release mode to prevent stack overflows.

Decentralization

Move processing to a worker, drastically increases performance even if worker is on the same machine due to efficient runtime split IO work.

toml [dependencies] spider = { version = "1.32.3", features = ["decentralized"] }

```sh

install the worker

cargo install spider_worker

start the worker [set the worker on another machine in prod]

RUSTLOG=info SPIDERWORKERPORT=3030 spiderworker

start rust project as normal with SPIDER_WORKER env variable

SPIDER_WORKER=http://127.0.0.1:3030 cargo run --example example --features decentralized ```

The SPIDER_WORKER env variable takes a comma seperated list of urls to set the workers. If the scrape feature flag is enabled, use the SPIDER_WORKER_SCRAPER env variable to determine the scraper worker.

Regex Blacklisting

Allow regex for blacklisting routes

toml [dependencies] spider = { version = "1.32.3", features = ["regex"] }

```rust,no_run extern crate spider;

use spider::website::Website; use spider::tokio;

[tokio::main]

async fn main() { let mut website: Website = Website::new("https://choosealicense.com"); website.configuration.blacklisturl.push("/licenses/".tostring()); website.crawl().await;

for link in website.get_links() {
    println!("- {:?}", link.as_ref());
}

} ```

Pause, Resume, and Shutdown

If you are performing large workloads you may need to control the crawler by enabling the control feature flag:

toml [dependencies] spider = { version = "1.32.3", features = ["control"] }

```rust extern crate spider;

use spider::tokio; use spider::website::Website;

[tokio::main]

async fn main() { use spider::utils::{pause, resume, shutdown}; let url = "https://choosealicense.com/"; let mut website: Website = Website::new(&url);

tokio::spawn(async move {
    pause(url).await;
    sleep(Duration::from_millis(5000)).await;
    resume(url).await;
    // perform shutdown if crawl takes longer than 15s
    sleep(Duration::from_millis(15000)).await;
    shutdown(url).await;
});

website.crawl().await;

} ```

Scrape/Gather HTML

```rust extern crate spider;

use spider::tokio; use spider::website::Website;

[tokio::main]

async fn main() { use std::io::{Write, stdout};

let url = "https://choosealicense.com/";
let mut website: Website = Website::new(&url);

website.scrape().await;

let mut lock = stdout().lock();

let separator = "-".repeat(url.len());

for page in website.get_pages().unwrap() {
    writeln!(
        lock,
        "{}\n{}\n\n{}\n\n{}",
        separator,
        page.get_url(),
        page.get_html(),
        separator
    )
    .unwrap();
}

} ```

Sequential

Perform crawls sequential without any concurrency.

```rust // .. let mut website: Website = Website::new("https://choosealicense.com");

website.crawl_sync().await;

```

Blocking

If you need a blocking sync implementation use a version prior to v1.12.0.