The source code is under the folder sources, while the compiled
classes are in folder classes. Generated documentation is in
the doc folder. For viewing documentation open doc/index.html in
a browser.
A sample code to run a couple of crawler algorithms is available as
spider.crawl.Tester (see in appropriate folder under
sources). Make sure that you edit the code to put your e-mail
address within this class. The e-mail address will be used with each
outgoing HTTP request.
There are parts of the code that intentionally slow down the crawlers. They are not without a purpose. The code respects the Robot Exclusion Protocol and spreads the crawling load over many remote Web servers. The code is under development.
To learn more about the design and details of the code you may read:
G. Pant, P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer: Crawling the Web. In M. Levene and A. Poulovassilis, eds.: Web Dynamics, Springer, 2004
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under award N. IIS-0133124 and IIS-0348940 (PI: Filippo Menczer). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are thouse of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Gautam Pant and The University of Iowa This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.