Crawler

Search anything on Web.

Crawler is simple NodeJS based web crawler that crawls a website within seconds.

Quick start

1. Clone the repo and cd path_to_directory
2. npm install.
3. npm start search_term.

Installation

npm install Crawler

Usage

var Crawler = require('Crawler');
var c = new Crawler({
  address: 'http://www.example.com',
  term: 'example'
});
c.start();

Configuration Options

To configure Crawler, provide following options to the crawler object.

1. address: This is the website to be crawled. http://www.quora.com is currently passed in default main.js in the repo.
2. term: Term to be searched on the website. Provided as a command line argument if using default main.js.
3. maxPages: This is the maximum number of pages of the website that will be crawled. 100 is set by default.
4. maxConcurrency: This is maximum number of requests can be sent at any given time. 5 is set by default.

Ouput

1. All the links where search_term is found are compiled in a HTML file at the end of the crawling.
2. Console outputs links as they are crawled.