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Using Web Crawler
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What is web crawler?
How does web crawler work?
Implementation
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Also known as a Web spider or Web robot. Other less frequently used names for Web
crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots,
and worms.
A program or automated script which browses
the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated
manner
(Kobayashi and Takeda, 2000).
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The process or program used by search engines
to download pages from the web for later
processing by a search engine that will index thedownloaded pages to provide fast searches.
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It starts with a list of URLs to visit, called theseeds. As the crawler visits these URLs, it
identifies all the hyperlinks in the page and
adds them to the list of visited URLs, called
the crawl frontier.
URLs from the frontier are recursively visited
according to a set of policies.
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KNUTT-MORRIS-PRATT (KMP)
FINITE AUTOMATA
BOYER MOORE (BMM)
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works much like finite automata algorithm.Pattern and text are compared in a left to
right scan
The data we need to find the next shiftingposition is stored in an auxiliary next table
which is computed in a pre- processing step
by comparing the pattern with itself
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The pattern is scanned from right to left when
proceeding though the text.
BM works with two different pre-processing
strategies to determine the smallest possibleshift, each time a mismatch occursalgorithm
computes both and then chooses the largest
possible shift
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uses a finite automaton to scan for
occurrence of the pattern in the text. A finite automaton is a 5-tuple(S,s0,A, ,d), where
- S is a finite set of states
- s0 is the start state
- A S is a distinguished set of accepting states
- * is a finite input alphabet
- D is a function from S * into S, called the
transition function of the automaton.
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We presented the working and design of webcrawler. Here, the working of kmp, finite and boyer
moore algorithm is also shown.
Here, to run the crawler we will give one seed url,
keyword and the path for text file as input.
When we press the search button it will take the urls
that match the keyword from internet.
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