Let's say I have a Confluence instance, and I want to crawl it and store the results in Solr as part of an intranet search engine.
Now let's say I only want to store a subset of the pages (matching a regex) on the Confluence instance as part of the search engine.
But, I do want Nutch to crawl all the other pages, looking for links to pages that match—I just don't want Nutch to store them (or at least I don't want Solr to return them in the results).
What's the normal or least painful way to set Nutch->Solr up to work like this?
Looks like the only way to do this is write your own IndexFilter plugin (or find someone's to copy from).
[Will add my sample plugin code here when it's working properly]
References:
http://www.atlantbh.com/precise-data-extraction-with-apache-nutch/
http://florianhartl.com/nutch-plugin-tutorial.html
How to filter URLs in Nutch 2.1 solrindex command
I'm using nutch 1.6 to crawl a paginated web page containing 20 products/page, with this command:
./nutch crawl urls -dir <dir> -depth 4 -topN 100 -threads 100
I'm getting the 20 first products & the links to the following pages. But the crawler is not following my next pages link? Am I missing a parameter?
Unfortunately Nutch 1.6 lacks the support for crawling Ajax based sites. See this and this. There are no immediate plans to add the same.
The regex-urlfilter blocks urls that have querystring parameters:
# skip URLs containing certain characters as probable queries, etc.
-[?*!#=]
Modify that file so that urls with querystring parameters are crawled:
# skip URLs containing certain characters as probable queries, etc.
-[*!#]
I have a Nutch index crawled from a specific domain and I am using the solrindex command to push the crawled data to my Solr index. The problem is that it seems that only some of the crawled URLs are actually being indexed in Solr. I had the Nutch crawl output to a text file so I can see the URLs that it crawled, but when I search for some of the crawled URLs in Solr I get no results.
Command I am using to do the Nutch crawl: bin/nutch crawl urls -dir crawl -depth 20 -topN 2000000
This command is completing successfully and the output displays URLs that I cannot find in the resulting Solr index.
Command I am using to push the crawled data to Solr: bin/nutch solrindex http://localhost:8983/solr/ crawl/crawldb crawl/linkdb crawl/segments/*
The output for this command says it is also completing successfully, so it does not seem to be an issue with the process terminating prematurely (which is what I initially thought it might be).
One final thing that I am finding strange is that the entire Nutch & Solr config is identical to a setup I used previously on a different server and I had no problems that time. It is literally the same config files copied onto this new server.
TL;DR: I have a set of URLs successfully crawled in Nutch, but when I run the solrindex command only some of them are pushed to Solr. Please help.
UPDATE: I've re-run all these commands and the output still insists it's all working fine. I've looked into any blockers for indexing that I can think of, but still no luck. The URLs being passed to Solr are all active and publicly accessible, so that's not an issue. I'm really banging my head against a wall here so would love some help.
I can only guess what happend from my experiences:
There is a component called url-normalizer (with its configuration url-normalizer.xml) which is truncating some urls (removing URL parameters, SessionIds, ...)
Additionally, Nutch uses a unique constraint, by default each url is only saved once.
So, if the normalizer truncates 2 or more URLs ('foo.jsp?param=value', 'foo.jsp?param=value2', 'foo.jsp?param=value3', ...) to the exactly same one ('foo.jsp'), they get only saved once. So Solr will only see a subset of all your crawled URLs.
cheers
Apache Nutch 1.2 does not index the entire website, only subfolders. My index-page provides links in most areas/subfolders of my website. For example stuff, students, research... But nutch only crawl in one specific folder - "students" in this case. Seems as if links in other directories are not followed.
crawl-urlfilter.txt:
+^http://www5.my-domain.de/
seed.txt in the URLs-folder:
http://www5.my-domain.de/
Starting nutch with(windows/linux both used):
nutch crawl "D:\Programme\nutch-1.2\URLs" -dir "D:\Programme\nutch-1.2\crawl" -depth 10 -topN 1000000
Different variants for depth(5-23) and topN(100-1000000) are tested. Providing more links in seed.txt doesnt help at all, still not following links found in injected pages.
Interestingly, crawling gnu.org works perfect. No robots.txt or preventing meta-tags used in my site.
Any ideas?
While attempting to crawl all links from an index page, I discovered that nutch was limited to exactly 100 links of around 1000. The setting that was holding me back was:
db.max.outlinks.per.page
Setting this to 2000 allowed nutch to index all of them in one shot.
Check out if you´ve got intra domain links limitation (property as false in nutch-site.xml). Also check out other properties as maximun intra-extra links per page and http size. Sometimes they produce wrong results during crawling.
Ciao!
I am interested to do web crawling. I was looking at solr.
Does solr do web crawling, or what are the steps to do web crawling?
Solr 5+ DOES in fact now do web crawling!
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
Older Solr versions do not do web crawling alone, as historically it's a search server that provides full text search capabilities. It builds on top of Lucene.
If you need to crawl web pages using another Solr project then you have a number of options including:
Nutch - http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/
Websphinx - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rcm/websphinx/
JSpider - http://j-spider.sourceforge.net/
Heritrix - http://crawler.archive.org/
If you want to make use of the search facilities provided by Lucene or SOLR you'll need to build indexes from the web crawl results.
See this also:
Lucene crawler (it needs to build lucene index)
Solr does not in of itself have a web crawling feature.
Nutch is the "de-facto" crawler (and then some) for Solr.
Solr 5 started supporting simple webcrawling (Java Doc). If want search, Solr is the tool, if you want to crawl, Nutch/Scrapy is better :)
To get it up and running, you can take a detail look at here. However, here is how to get it up and running in one line:
java
-classpath <pathtosolr>/dist/solr-core-5.4.1.jar
-Dauto=yes
-Dc=gettingstarted -> collection: gettingstarted
-Ddata=web -> web crawling and indexing
-Drecursive=3 -> go 3 levels deep
-Ddelay=0 -> for the impatient use 10+ for production
org.apache.solr.util.SimplePostTool -> SimplePostTool
http://datafireball.com/ -> a testing wordpress blog
The crawler here is very "naive" where you can find all the code from this Apache Solr's github repo.
Here is how the response looks like:
SimplePostTool version 5.0.0
Posting web pages to Solr url http://localhost:8983/solr/gettingstarted/update/extract
Entering auto mode. Indexing pages with content-types corresponding to file endings xml,json,csv,pdf,doc,docx,ppt,pptx,xls,xlsx,odt,odp,ods,ott,otp,ots,rtf,htm,html,txt,log
SimplePostTool: WARNING: Never crawl an external web site faster than every 10 seconds, your IP will probably be blocked
Entering recursive mode, depth=3, delay=0s
Entering crawl at level 0 (1 links total, 1 new)
POSTed web resource http://datafireball.com (depth: 0)
Entering crawl at level 1 (52 links total, 51 new)
POSTed web resource http://datafireball.com/2015/06 (depth: 1)
...
Entering crawl at level 2 (266 links total, 215 new)
...
POSTed web resource http://datafireball.com/2015/08/18/a-few-functions-about-python-path (depth: 2)
...
Entering crawl at level 3 (846 links total, 656 new)
POSTed web resource http://datafireball.com/2014/09/06/node-js-web-scraping-using-cheerio (depth: 3)
SimplePostTool: WARNING: The URL http://datafireball.com/2014/09/06/r-lattice-trellis-another-framework-for-data-visualization/?share=twitter returned a HTTP result status of 302
423 web pages indexed.
COMMITting Solr index changes to http://localhost:8983/solr/gettingstarted/update/extract...
Time spent: 0:05:55.059
In the end, you can see all the data are indexed properly.
You might also want to take a look at
http://www.crawl-anywhere.com/
Very powerful crawler that is compatible with Solr.
I have been using Nutch with Solr on my latest project and it seems to work quite nicely.
If you are using a Windows machine then I would strongly recommend following the 'No cygwin' instructions given by Jason Riffel too!
Yes, I agree with the other posts here, use Apache Nutch
bin/nutch crawl urls -solr http://localhost:8983/solr/ -depth 3 -topN 5
Although your solr version has the match the correct version of Nutch, because older versions of solr stores the indices in a different format
Its tutorial:
http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/NutchTutorial
I know it's been a while, but in case someone else is searching for a Solr crawler like me, there is a new open-source crawler called Norconex HTTP Collector
I know this question is quite old, but I'll respond anyway for the newcomer that will wonder here.
In order to use Solr, you can use a web crawler that is capable of storing documents in Solr.
For instance, The Norconex HTTP Collector is a flexible and powerful open-source web crawler that is compatible with Solr.
To use Solr with the Norconex HTTP Collector you will need the Norconex HTTP Collector which is used to crawl the website that you want to collect data from, and you will need to install the Norconex Apache Solr Committer to store collected documents into Solr. When the committer is installed, you will need to configure the XML configuration file of the crawler. I would recommend that you follow this link to get started test how the crawler works and here to know how to configure the configuration file. Finally, you will need this link to configure the committer section of the configuration file with Solr.
Note that if your goal is not to crawl web pages, Norconex also has a Filesystem Collector that can be used with the Sorl Committer as well.
Def Nutch !
Nutch also has a basic web front end which will let you query your search results. You might not even need to bother with SOLR depending on your requirements. If you do a Nutch/SOLR combination you should be able to take advantage of the recent work done to integrate SOLR and Nutch ... http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-442