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WEB CRAWLINGintroduction to
by Nate Murray& extraction
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WHO AM I ?
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Nate Murray
AT&T Interactive (Yellowpages.com)
TB-scale data since 2009
Various crawlers since 2005
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WEB CRAWLINGwhat is
?
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web crawlerdefinition:
a program that browses the web.
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transforming unstructured web data into structured data
web extractiondefinition:
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transforming semistructured web data into structured data
web extractiondefinition:
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motivation
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motivation: bookmark buddies
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motivation: bookmark buddies
URL TitleUsers
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motivation:
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motivation: business hours
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motivation: business hours
Day OpennessOpennessMon ClosedClosedTue 11:30-14:30 17:30-22:00
Wed 11:30-14:30 17:30-22:00
Thur 11:30-14:30 17:30-22:00
Fri 11:30-14:30 17:30-22:00
Sat 12:00-14:30 17:00-22:00
Sun - 17:00-21:00
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motivation:
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motivation: recommend videos
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motivation: recommend videos
Users
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motivation:
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motivation: vertical search
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motivation: vertical search
ImageSKU
NamePriceRating
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motivation:
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DESIRED PROPERTIES
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DESIRED PROPERTIES
SPEED
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CONSTRAINTS
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CONSTRAINTS
• Politeness
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CONSTRAINTS
• Politeness• Distributed
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CONSTRAINTS
• Politeness• Distributed• Linear Scalability
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CONSTRAINTS
• Politeness• Distributed• Linear Scalability• Even partitioning
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CONSTRAINTS
• Politeness• Distributed• Linear Scalability• Even partitioning• Minimum overlap
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CONSTRAINTS
• Politeness• Distributed• Linear Scalability• Even partitioning• Minimum overlap
it’s easy to burden small servers
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CONSTRAINTS
• Politeness• Distributed• Linear Scalability• Even partitioning• Minimum overlap
(for any significant crawl)
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CONSTRAINTS
• Politeness• Distributed• Linear Scalability• Even partitioning• Minimum overlap
n machines = n*m pages-per-second
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CONSTRAINTS
• Politeness• Distributed• Linear Scalability• Even partitioning• Minimum overlap
every machine should perform equal work
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CONSTRAINTS
• Politeness• Distributed• Linear Scalability• Even partitioning• Minimum overlap crawl each page
exactly once
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CONSTRAINTS
• Politeness• Distributed• Linear Scalability• Even partitioning• Minimum overlap
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BASIC ALGORITHM
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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architecture overview
FETCHER
STORAGE
CRAWL PLANNER INTERNET
URL QUEUE
Web Data
Web Data
Web Data
URLs
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CHALLENGES
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challenges:
depends on your ambitions
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challenges:
1998 - 26 million2005 - 8 billion2008 - 1 trillion
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/technology/15search.htmlhttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html
Google’s Index Size:
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challenges:
small crawls are easy
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challenges:
small crawls are easy
< 10MM
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challenges:
large crawls are interesting
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challenges:
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challenges:
DNS Lookup
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challenges:
DNS LookupURLs Crawled
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challenges:
DNS LookupURLs Crawled
Politeness
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challenges:
DNS LookupURLs Crawled
PolitenessURL Frontier
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challenges:
DNS LookupURLs Crawled
PolitenessURL Frontier
Queueing URLs
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challenges:
DNS LookupURLs Crawled
PolitenessURL Frontier
Queueing URLsExtracting URLs
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DNS LOOKUPchallenges:
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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DNS LOOKUPchallenges:
can easily be a bottleneck
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DNS LOOKUPchallenges:
• consider running your own DNS servers• djbdns• PowerDNS• etc.
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DNS LOOKUPchallenges:
• be aware of software limitations• gethostbyaddr is synchronized• same with many “default” DNS clients
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DNS LOOKUPchallenges:
You’ll know when you need it
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URLs CRAWLEDchallenges:
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Initialize: UrlsDone = null UrlFrontier = {'google.com/index.html', ..}Repeat url = UrlFrontier.getNext() ip = DNSlookup(url.getHostname()) html = DownloadPage(ip, url.getPath()) UrlsDone.insert(url) newUrls = parseForLinks(html) For each newUrl If not UrlsDone.contains(newUrl) then UrlsTodo.insert(newUrl)
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URLs CRAWLEDchallenges:
1 machine, store in memory
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URLs CRAWLEDchallenges:
1 machine, store in memory
NAPKIN CALCULATION
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URLs CRAWLEDchallenges:
1 machine, store in memory
NAPKIN CALCULATION~50 bytes per URL
e.g. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArticlesAndPresentations
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URLs CRAWLEDchallenges:
1 machine, store in memory
NAPKIN CALCULATION~50 bytes per URL
e.g. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArticlesAndPresentations
+8 bytes for time-last-crawledas long e.g. System.currentTimeMillis() -> 1314392455712
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URLs CRAWLEDchallenges:
1 machine, store in memory
NAPKIN CALCULATION~50 bytes per URL
e.g. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArticlesAndPresentations
+8 bytes for time-last-crawledas long e.g. System.currentTimeMillis() -> 1314392455712
x 100 million
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URLs CRAWLEDchallenges:
1 machine, store in memory
NAPKIN CALCULATION~50 bytes per URL
e.g. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArticlesAndPresentations
+8 bytes for time-last-crawledas long e.g. System.currentTimeMillis() -> 1314392455712
x 100 million
=~ 5.4 gigabytes
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can we do better?
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BLOOM FILTERS
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BLOOM FILTERS
answers the question:
is this item in the set?
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BLOOM FILTERS
answers either:
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BLOOM FILTERS
answers either:
• yes, probably
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BLOOM FILTERS
answers either:
• yes, probably• definitely not
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BLOOM FILTERS
answers either:
• yes, probably• definitely not
Have we crawled: http://www.xcombinator.com?
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BLOOM FILTERS
answers either:
• yes, probably• definitely not
Have we crawled: http://www.xcombinator.com?
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URLs CRAWLEDchallenges:
1 machine, bloom filter
100 million URLs
1 in 100 million chanceof false positive
see: http://hur.st/bloomfilter?n=100000000&p=1.0E-8
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URLs CRAWLEDchallenges:
1 machine, bloom filter
NAPKIN CALCULATION100 million URLs
1 in 100 million chanceof false positive
see: http://hur.st/bloomfilter?n=100000000&p=1.0E-8
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URLs CRAWLEDchallenges:
1 machine, bloom filter
NAPKIN CALCULATION100 million URLs
1 in 100 million chanceof false positive
=~ 457 megabytes
see: http://hur.st/bloomfilter?n=100000000&p=1.0E-8
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BLOOM FILTER
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BLOOM FILTERdrawbacks
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BLOOM FILTER
• probabilistic - occasional errors
drawbacks
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BLOOM FILTER
• probabilistic - occasional errors
• estimate # of items ahead of time
drawbacks
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BLOOM FILTER
• probabilistic - occasional errors
• estimate # of items ahead of time
• can’t delete
drawbacks
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BLOOM FILTER
• probabilistic - occasional errors
• estimate # of items ahead of time
• can’t delete
drawbackssolutions
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BLOOM FILTER
• probabilistic - occasional errors
• estimate # of items ahead of time
• can’t delete
drawbacks
• acceptable
solutions
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BLOOM FILTER
• probabilistic - occasional errors
• estimate # of items ahead of time
• can’t delete
drawbacks
• acceptable
• not hard, see Dynamic BFs
solutions
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BLOOM FILTER
• probabilistic - occasional errors
• estimate # of items ahead of time
• can’t delete
drawbacks
• acceptable
• not hard, see Dynamic BFs
• pick granularity (days)
solutions
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BLOOM FILTER
• probabilistic - occasional errors
• estimate # of items ahead of time
• can’t delete
drawbacks
• acceptable
• not hard, see Dynamic BFs
• pick granularity (days)• cascade them
solutions
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BLOOM FILTERSreferences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filterhttp://spyced.blogspot.com/2009/01/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about.htmlhttp://www.igvita.com/2010/01/06/flow-analysis-time-based-bloom-filters/
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POLITENESSchallenges:
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obey robots.txt
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wait 2 seconds (w.r.t. ip)
rule of thumb:
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centralized politeness
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centralized politeness
SPOF
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centralized politeness
SPOFcontention
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POLITENESSchallenges:
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POLITENESSchallenges:
• Options:
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POLITENESSchallenges:
• Options:• central database
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POLITENESSchallenges:
• Options:• central database • distributed locks (paxos/sigma/zookeeper)
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POLITENESSchallenges:
• Options:• central database • distributed locks (paxos/sigma/zookeeper)• controlled URL distribution
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POLITENESSchallenges:
• Options:• central database • distributed locks (paxos/sigma/zookeeper)• controlled URL distribution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)
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POLITENESSchallenges:
• Options:• central database • distributed locks (paxos/sigma/zookeeper)• controlled URL distribution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)http://zookeeper.apache.org/
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URL FRONTIERchallenges:
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url frontier
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consistently distribute URLs based on IP
idea:
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moduloIP SHA-1 bucket (mod 5)
174.132.225.106 4dd14b0b... 2
74.125.224.115 cf4b7594... 1
157.166.255.19 0ac4d141... 4
69.22.138.129 6c1584fa... 4
98.139.50.166 327252c5... 3
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same IP always goes to same machine
benefits:
simple
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susceptible to skew
drawbacks:
can’t add / remove nodes without pain
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consistent hashing
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source: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/consistent-hashing/
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source: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/consistent-hashing/
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source: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/consistent-hashing/
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source: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/consistent-hashing/
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~ 1/(n+1) URLs move on add/remove
benefits:
virtual nodes help skewrobust (no SOP)
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naive solution won’t work for large sites
drawbacks:
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Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-Peer Lookup Protocol for Internet Applications (2001) Stoica et al.
Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store, SOSP 2007
Tapestry: A Resilient Global-Scale Overlay for Service Deployment (2004) Zhao et al.
further reading:
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QUEUEING URLSchallenges:
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situation:
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situation:URL
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situation:URLnot recently crawled
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situation:URLnot recently crawledallowed by robots.txt
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situation:URLnot recently crawledallowed by robots.txtpolite
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how to you order them?
(within a single machine)
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http://yachtmaintenanceco.com/http://www.amsterdamports.nl/http://www.4s-dawn.com/http://www.embassysuiteslittlerock.com/http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/NM/Airfields_NM_NW.htmhttp://mdgroover.iweb.bsu.eduhttp://music.imbc.com/http://www.robertjbradshaw.comhttp://www.kerkattenhoven.behttp://www.escolania.org/http://www.musiciansdfw.org/http://www.ariana.org/
1 2 3hash each lane:
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1 2 3
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1 2 3
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1 2 3
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1 2 3
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1 2 3
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1 2 3
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1 2 3
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ERLANG
lookup: erlang B / C / engset
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as many threads as possible
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don’t sort input URLs
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http://abcnews.go.com/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/ABCNEWSSpecial/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/JoelSiegel/story?id=1734395http://abcnews.go.com/International/News/story?id=203089&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/International/Pope/http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81417&page=1
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http://abcnews.go.com/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/ABCNEWSSpecial/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/JoelSiegel/story?id=1734395http://abcnews.go.com/International/News/story?id=203089&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/International/Pope/http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81417&page=1
fetch
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http://abcnews.go.com/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/ABCNEWSSpecial/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/JoelSiegel/story?id=1734395http://abcnews.go.com/International/News/story?id=203089&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/International/Pope/http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81417&page=1
wait
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http://abcnews.go.com/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/ABCNEWSSpecial/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/JoelSiegel/story?id=1734395http://abcnews.go.com/International/News/story?id=203089&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/International/Pope/http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81417&page=1
fetch
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http://abcnews.go.com/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/ABCNEWSSpecial/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/JoelSiegel/story?id=1734395http://abcnews.go.com/International/News/story?id=203089&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/International/Pope/http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81417&page=1
wait
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http://abcnews.go.com/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/ABCNEWSSpecial/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/JoelSiegel/story?id=1734395http://abcnews.go.com/International/News/story?id=203089&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/International/Pope/http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81417&page=1
fetch
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http://abcnews.go.com/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/ABCNEWSSpecial/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/JoelSiegel/story?id=1734395http://abcnews.go.com/International/News/story?id=203089&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/International/Pope/http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81417&page=1
wait
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http://abcnews.go.com/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/ABCNEWSSpecial/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=207269&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/JoelSiegel/story?id=1734395http://abcnews.go.com/International/News/story?id=203089&page=1http://abcnews.go.com/International/Pope/http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81417&page=1
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http://yachtmaintenanceco.com/http://www.amsterdamports.nl/http://www.4s-dawn.com/http://www.embassysuiteslittlerock.com/http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/NM/Airfields_NM_NW.htmhttp://mdgroover.iweb.bsu.eduhttp://music.imbc.com/http://www.robertjbradshaw.comhttp://www.kerkattenhoven.behttp://www.escolania.org/http://www.musiciansdfw.org/http://www.ariana.org/
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
http://yachtmaintenanceco.com/http://www.amsterdamports.nl/http://www.4s-dawn.com/http://www.embassysuiteslittlerock.com/http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/NM/Airfields_NM_NW.htmhttp://mdgroover.iweb.bsu.eduhttp://music.imbc.com/http://www.robertjbradshaw.comhttp://www.kerkattenhoven.behttp://www.escolania.org/http://www.musiciansdfw.org/http://www.ariana.org/
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http://yachtmaintenanceco.com/http://www.amsterdamports.nl/http://www.4s-dawn.com/http://www.embassysuiteslittlerock.com/http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/NM/Airfields_NM_NW.htmhttp://mdgroover.iweb.bsu.eduhttp://music.imbc.com/http://www.robertjbradshaw.comhttp://www.kerkattenhoven.behttp://www.escolania.org/http://www.musiciansdfw.org/http://www.ariana.org/
no waiting!
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EXTRACTING URLSchallenges:
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challenges:
EXTRACTING URLS
the internet is full of garbage
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challenges:
EXTRACTING URLS
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challenges:
EXTRACTING URLS
enormous pages
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challenges:
EXTRACTING URLS
enormous pages
terrible markup
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challenges:
EXTRACTING URLS
enormous pages
terrible markup
ridiculous urls
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challenges:
EXTRACTING URLS
enormous pages
terrible markup
ridiculous urls
☃.net/
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challenges:
EXTRACTING URLS
enormous pages
terrible markup
ridiculous urls
☃.net/“unicode snowman dot net”
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challenges:
EXTRACTING URLSbe prepared:
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challenges:
EXTRACTING URLSbe prepared:
use a streaming XML parser
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challenges:
EXTRACTING URLSbe prepared:
use a streaming XML parser
use a library that handle’s bad markup
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challenges:
EXTRACTING URLSbe prepared:
use a streaming XML parser
use a library that handle’s bad markup
be aware that URLs aren’t ASCII
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
challenges:
EXTRACTING URLSbe prepared:
use a streaming XML parser
use a library that handle’s bad markup
be aware that URLs aren’t ASCII
use a URL normalizer
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
SOFTWARE
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
software advice:
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
software advice:
• goals determine scale
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
software advice:
• goals determine scale
• someone else has already done it
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
2 second crawler:
function wgetspider() { wget --html-extension --convert-links --mirror \ --page-requisites --progress=bar --level=5 \ --no-parent --no-verbose \ --no-check-certificate "$@"; }
$ wgetspider http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
java crawlers:
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
java crawlers:
• Heritrix (Internet Archive)
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
java crawlers:
• Heritrix (Internet Archive)
• Nutch (Lucene)
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
java crawlers:
• Heritrix (Internet Archive)
• Nutch (Lucene)
• Bixo (Hadoop / Cascading)
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
java crawlers:
• Heritrix (Internet Archive)
• Nutch (Lucene)
• Bixo (Hadoop / Cascading)
http://crawler.archive.org/http://nutch.apache.org/http://bixo.101tec.com/
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
extraction packages:
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
extraction packages:
• mechanize
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
extraction packages:
• mechanize
• BeautifulSoup & urllib2
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
extraction packages:
• mechanize
• BeautifulSoup & urllib2
• Scrapy
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
extraction packages:
• mechanize
• BeautifulSoup & urllib2
• Scrapy
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/http://scrapy.org/
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
wrapper induction(ish)
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
wrapper induction(ish)• Ariel
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
wrapper induction(ish)• Ariel
• RoadRunner
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
wrapper induction(ish)• Ariel
• RoadRunner
• TemplateMaker
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
wrapper induction(ish)• Ariel
• RoadRunner
• TemplateMaker
• scrubyt
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
wrapper induction(ish)• Ariel
• RoadRunner
• TemplateMaker
• scrubyt
http://ariel.rubyforge.org/index.htmlhttp://www.dia.uniroma3.it/db/roadRunner/http://code.google.com/p/templatemaker/http://scrubyt.rubyforge.org/files/README.html
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
QUESTIONS?
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
FEEDBACK:
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