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This commit extracts several previously hardcoded configuration properties, and makes then available through system.properties. The documentation is updated to reflect the change. Dead code was also removed in the process. CrawlSpecGenerator is left feeling a bit over-engineered still, since it's built for a more general case, where all other implementations but the current one are removed, but we'll leave it like this for now as it's fairly readable still. |
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| converting-process | ||
| crawling-process | ||
| index-constructor-process | ||
| loading-process | ||
| test-data | ||
| website-adjacencies-calculator | ||
| readme.md | ||
Processes
1. Crawl Process
The crawling-process fetches website contents and saves them as compressed JSON models described in crawling-model.
The operation is specified by a crawl specification, which can be created in the control GUI.
2. Converting Process
The converting-process reads crawl data from the crawling step and processes them, extracting keywords and metadata and saves them as parquet files described in processed-data.
3. Loading Process
The loading-process reads the processed data.
It has creates an index journal, a link database, and loads domains and domain-links into the MariaDB database.
4. Index Construction Process
The index-construction-process constructs indices from the data generated by the loader.
Overview
Schematically the crawling and loading process looks like this:
//====================\\
|| Compressed JSON: || Specifications
|| ID, Domain, Urls[] || File
|| ID, Domain, Urls[] ||
|| ID, Domain, Urls[] ||
|| ... ||
\\====================//
|
+-----------+
| CRAWLING | Fetch each URL and
| STEP | output to file
+-----------+
|
//========================\\
|| Compressed JSON: || Crawl
|| Status, HTML[], ... || Files
|| Status, HTML[], ... ||
|| Status, HTML[], ... ||
|| ... ||
\\========================//
|
+------------+
| CONVERTING | Analyze HTML and
| STEP | extract keywords
+------------+ features, links, URLs
|
//==================\\
|| Parquet: || Processed
|| Documents[] || Files
|| Domains[] ||
|| Links[] ||
\\==================//
|
+------------+ Insert domains into mariadb
| LOADING | Insert URLs, titles in link DB
| STEP | Insert keywords in Index
+------------+
|
+------------+
| CONSTRUCT | Make the data searchable
| INDEX |
+------------+