WebCrawler Class Reference

The WebCrawler class Parses HTML code it receives, locates urls inside it and puts them into a url queue (passed from the parent) while emitting signals to the parent to create new nodes and edges between them. More...

#include <webcrawler.h>

Inheritance diagram for WebCrawler:

Collaboration diagram for WebCrawler:

Public Slots
void	parse (QNetworkReply *reply)
	Called from Graph when a network reply for a new page download has finished to do the actual parsing of that page's html source from the reply bytearray. First, we start by reading all from http reply to a QString called page. Then we parse the page string, searching for url substrings.
void	newLink (int s, QUrl target, bool enqueue_to_frontier)
	??

Signals
void	signalCreateNode (const int &no, const QString &url, const bool &signalMW=false)
void	signalCreateEdge (const int &source, const int &target)
void	signalStartSpider ()
void	finished (QString)

Public Member Functions
	WebCrawler (QQueue< QUrl > *urlQueue, const QUrl &startUrl, const QStringList &urlPatternsIncluded, const QStringList &urlPatternsExcluded, const QStringList &linkClasses, const int &maxNodes, const int &maxLinksPerPage, const bool &intLinks=true, const bool &childLinks=true, const bool &parentLinks=false, const bool &selfLinks=false, const bool &extLinksIncluded=false, const bool &extLinksCrawl=false, const bool &socialLinks=false, const int &delayBetween=0)
	Constructor from parent Graph thread. Inits variables.
	~WebCrawler ()

Private Attributes
QQueue< QUrl > *	m_urlQueue
QMap< QUrl, int >	knownUrls
QUrl	m_initialUrl
int	m_maxUrls
int	m_discoveredNodes
int	m_maxLinksPerPage
bool	m_intLinks
bool	m_childLinks
bool	m_parentLinks
bool	m_selfLinks
bool	m_extLinksIncluded
bool	m_extLinksCrawl
bool	m_socialLinks
bool	m_urlIsSocial
int	m_delayBetween
QStringList	m_urlPatternsIncluded
QString	urlPattern
QStringList	m_urlPatternsExcluded
QStringList	m_linkClasses
QStringList	m_socialLinksExcluded
QStringList::const_iterator	constIterator
bool	m_urlPatternAllowed
bool	m_urlPatternNotAllowed
bool	m_linkClassAllowed

Detailed Description

The WebCrawler class Parses HTML code it receives, locates urls inside it and puts them into a url queue (passed from the parent) while emitting signals to the parent to create new nodes and edges between them.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

WebCrawler()

WebCrawler::WebCrawler	(	QQueue< QUrl > *	urlQueue,
		const QUrl &	startUrl,
		const QStringList &	urlPatternsIncluded,
		const QStringList &	urlPatternsExcluded,
		const QStringList &	linkClasses,
		const int &	maxN,
		const int &	maxLinksPerPage,
		const bool &	intLinks = true,
		const bool &	childLinks = true,
		const bool &	parentLinks = false,
		const bool &	selfLinks = false,
		const bool &	extLinksIncluded = false,
		const bool &	extLinksCrawl = false,
		const bool &	socialLinks = false,
		const int &	delayBetween = 0
	)

Constructor from parent Graph thread. Inits variables.

Parameters

url
maxNc
maxLinksPerPage
extLinks
intLinks

~WebCrawler()

WebCrawler::~WebCrawler

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Member Function Documentation

finished

void WebCrawler::finished ( QString  )

signal

newLink

void WebCrawler::newLink ( int  s, QUrl  target, bool  enqueue_to_frontier  )

slot

??

Parameters

s
target
enqueue_to_frontier

parse

void WebCrawler::parse ( QNetworkReply *  reply )

slot

Called from Graph when a network reply for a new page download has finished to do the actual parsing of that page's html source from the reply bytearray. First, we start by reading all from http reply to a QString called page. Then we parse the page string, searching for url substrings.

Parameters

reply

signalCreateEdge

void WebCrawler::signalCreateEdge ( const int &  source, const int &  target  )

signal

signalCreateNode

void WebCrawler::signalCreateNode ( const int &  no, const QString &  url, const bool &  signalMW = false  )

signal

signalStartSpider

void WebCrawler::signalStartSpider ( )

signal

Field Documentation

constIterator

QStringList::const_iterator WebCrawler::constIterator

private

knownUrls

QMap<QUrl, int> WebCrawler::knownUrls

private

m_childLinks

bool WebCrawler::m_childLinks

private

m_delayBetween

int WebCrawler::m_delayBetween

private

m_discoveredNodes

int WebCrawler::m_discoveredNodes

private

m_extLinksCrawl

bool WebCrawler::m_extLinksCrawl

private

m_extLinksIncluded

bool WebCrawler::m_extLinksIncluded

private

m_initialUrl

QUrl WebCrawler::m_initialUrl

private

m_intLinks

bool WebCrawler::m_intLinks

private

m_linkClassAllowed

bool WebCrawler::m_linkClassAllowed

private

m_linkClasses

QStringList WebCrawler::m_linkClasses

private

m_maxLinksPerPage

int WebCrawler::m_maxLinksPerPage

private

m_maxUrls

int WebCrawler::m_maxUrls

private

m_parentLinks

bool WebCrawler::m_parentLinks

private

m_selfLinks

bool WebCrawler::m_selfLinks

private

m_socialLinks

bool WebCrawler::m_socialLinks

private

m_socialLinksExcluded

QStringList WebCrawler::m_socialLinksExcluded

private

m_urlIsSocial

bool WebCrawler::m_urlIsSocial

private

m_urlPatternAllowed

bool WebCrawler::m_urlPatternAllowed

private

m_urlPatternNotAllowed

bool WebCrawler::m_urlPatternNotAllowed

private

m_urlPatternsExcluded

QStringList WebCrawler::m_urlPatternsExcluded

private

m_urlPatternsIncluded

QStringList WebCrawler::m_urlPatternsIncluded

private

m_urlQueue

QQueue<QUrl>* WebCrawler::m_urlQueue

private

urlPattern

QString WebCrawler::urlPattern

private

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• /home/dimitris/socnetv/app/src/webcrawler.h
• /home/dimitris/socnetv/app/src/webcrawler.cpp