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At this stage, the crawler will use the WARCs to resume a crawl if it terminates incorrectly. This is a WIP commit, since the warc files are not fully incorporated into the work flow, they are deleted after the domain is crawled. The commit also includes fairly invasive refactoring of the crawler classes, to accomplish better separation of concerns. |
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Converting Process
The converting process reads crawl data and extracts information to be fed into the index, such as keywords, metadata, urls, descriptions...
Structure
Most information is extracted from the document itself within DocumentProcessor, but some information is extracted from the
context of the document, such as other documents on the same domain. This is done in DomainProcessor.
To support multiple document formats, the converting process is pluggable. Each plugin is responsible for converting a single document format, such as HTML or plain text.
Further, the HTML plugin supports specializations, which refine the conversion process for specific server software, such as Javadoc, MediaWiki, PhpBB, etc. This helps to improve the processing for common types of websites, and makes up for the fact that it's hard to build a one-size-fits-all heuristic for deciding which parts of a document are important that does justice to every website.
Anchor Text
The converting process also supports supplementing the data with external information, such as anchor texts.
This is done automatically if atags.parquet is available in the data/-directory. atags.parquet can be
downloaded from here.
The rationale for doing this as well as the details of how the file is generated is described in this blog post: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/93_atags/
Central Classes
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ConverterMain orchestrates the conversion process.
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DocumentProcessor converts a single document.
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- HtmlDocumentProcessorPlugin has HTML-specific logic related to a document, keywords and identifies features such as whether it has javascript.
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- PlainTextDocumentProcessorPlugin has plain text-specific logic related to a document...
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DomainProcessor converts each document and generates domain-wide metadata such as link graphs.