webcrawler/README.md

webcrawler

Instructions to run

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/AmanTahiliani/webcrawler.git

2. cd into the directory

cd webcrawler

3. Install the requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run the shell script

./amantahiliani.sh 

Note: If you get a permission denied error, run the following command

chmod +x amantahiliani.sh

If it still doesn't work, run the following command

python3 MultiThreadedCrawler.py {seed_url} --pages_to_parse=1000

Output

The output is generated in the form of the following files:

1. pages_per_second.png - A graph showing the number of pages crawled per second
2. craw_ratio_table.png- A table showing the ratio of pages crawled to pages discovered
3. crawlspeed.png- A graph showing the crawl speed in pages per minute
4. Keywords_Output.json- A json file containing the keywords and the urls they were found in along with the frequency of the keyword in the url