GoodSearcher
A pyLucene-based crawl and search module for searching books from goodreads.com
| Module | Files | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Crawling | crawler.py, scraper.py, SetQueue.py | These files contain the implementation of a multi-threaded crawler. Specifically, scraper.py is the implementation for scraping webpages from Goodreads website. crawler.py implements the crawler threads, thread-safe url queues and related stuff. A thread-safe queue with a built-in set for url deduplication is implemented in SetQueue.py |
| Indexing | booktype.py, indexer.py, PageRank.py | Indexing using two libraries has been implemented. You can choose between Elasticsearch and Lucene for indexing. For document boosting, PageRank scoring is also implemented. |
| Searching | searcher.py | It is a web.py-based minimal web server for searching indexes and displaying results in a web page. |
Libraries used
Elasticsearch
- Elasticsearch: Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
- Elasticsearch-py: Official Python low-level client for Elasticsearch
- Elasticsearch-dsl-py: High level Python client for Elasticsearch
Lucene
- PyLucene: PyLucene is a Python extension for accessing Java Lucene.
- PyLucene: PyLucene clone on Github
Web
- Web.py: web.py is a web framework for Python that is as simple as it is powerful.
- Beautifulsoup4: For web scraping
Scipy/Numpy was also used for calculating PageRank scores.