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This variable had a very confusing name, and was dangerously easy to use in the wrong place with the result of getting something that only works as expected half the time. Ideally this class needs an overhaul, the assumptions it makes about domain names aren't great. |
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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
+-----------+
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//========================\\
|| Compressed JSON: || Crawl
|| Status, HTML[], ... || Files
|| Status, HTML[], ... ||
|| Status, HTML[], ... ||
|| ... ||
\\========================//
|
+------------+
| CONVERTING | Analyze HTML and
| STEP | extract keywords
+------------+ features, links, URLs
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//==================\\
|| Parquet: || Processed
|| Documents[] || Files
|| Domains[] ||
|| Links[] ||
\\==================//
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+------------+ Insert domains into mariadb
| LOADING | Insert URLs, titles in link DB
| STEP | Insert keywords in Index
+------------+
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+------------+
| CONSTRUCT | Make the data searchable
| INDEX |
+------------+