About

A simple crawler library for scraping the contents of websites. Written in Java using JDK 1.8. Not intended for any serious production use.

Usage

First the project has to be built locally with Maven. At the project root, use mvn clean install. Then add the following to your pom.xml

<dependency>
      <groupId>me.adeshina</groupId>
      <artifactId>site-crawler</artifactId>
      <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

To crawl a website, you'll need to first configure the crawling process, obtain a crawler for the site and start it. E.g

public class CrawlMySite {
    
    public void useCrawler() {
        
        CrawlConfig config = new CrawlConfig();
        config.maxPages(2);
        config.respectRobotsFile(false);
        config.crawlDelaySeconds(1);
                        
        // Only URLs in this domain will be visited
        String site = "https://twitter.com";
                
        SiteCrawler twitterCrawler = SiteCrawler.get(site, config);
                        
        // Blocking call
        Set<WebPage> pages = twitterCrawler.start();
    }
            
}

Dependecies

• Jsoup
• JUnit 5
• Mockito