demonCoder95 / fetch

A simple URL fetcher based on Python3

URL Fetcher based on Python3

This is a simple URL fetcher based on python3. All the requirements have been noted in the requirements.txt file.

To run the CLI program, run the driver program src/main.py. You can use the -h switch to see the help on the CLI.

Example run:

    python3 src/main.py https://google.com https://example.com

You can specify the --metadata flag to get some metadata information of the URl as well. Example:

    python3 src/main.py --metadata https://google.com

    site: google.com
    num_links: 20
    images: 1
    last_fetch: Mon Oct 25 16:52:20 2021

Using the Dockerfile

The project comes with a Dockerfile which allows you to use the program through a Docker environment. First, you need to build the program image:

    docker build -t fetcher-app .

when the image is done building, you can invoke the program in a Docker environment with:

    docker run fetcher-app python3 src/main.py --metadata https://google.com/

This will start a container in your local docker environment and run the program in it.

Future Improvements

Add multithreading to accelerate the URL fetching with a new class that operates on ThreadPoolExecutor objects.

Fix the src= field of img tags to point to local cache dir.