charlesdebarros / Ruby_Web_Crawler

Web Crawler build using Ruby

Ruby_Web_Crawler

Technologies used

• Ruby 2.7.X

• Mechanize (gem) 2.8.X

  • If the Mechanize gem is not installed, please install it by running gem install mechanize

In order to run the web crawler script:

• Clone this repo
• cd into the repo folder
• run bundle install
• create a urls.txt file (the crawler will look for this file name)
  • From terminal, type touch lib/urls.txt
• open the urls.txt file and type the URL you would like to crawler
  • Example: https://github.com
  • If just testing, do not type a URL like www.google.com as it will take time to parse all the URLs found.
  • Save the file
• run the script by typing ''ruby lib/crawler.rb''
• Check the URLs parsed in the lib/ursl.txt file

TODO

• Refactor script
  • Break down crawl method.
  • Make script create a file to store URLs if file does not exist
  • Ask for user to input site to be crawled instead of having to edit the urls.txt file