"""Recursive webcrawler example. For asynchronous DNS lookups install the `dnspython` package: $ pip install dnspython Requires the `pybloom` module for the bloom filter which is used to ensure a lower chance of recrawling a URL previously seen. Since the bloom filter is not shared, but only passed as an argument to each subtask, it would be much better to have this as a centralized service. Redis sets could also be a practical solution. A BloomFilter with a capacity of 100_000 members and an error rate of 0.001 is 2.8MB pickled, but if compressed with zlib it only takes up 2.9kB(!). We don't have to do compression manually, just set the tasks compression to "zlib", and the serializer to "pickle". """ from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals import re import requests from celery import task, group from eventlet import Timeout from pybloom import BloomFilter try: from urllib.parse import urlsplit except ImportError: from urlparse import urlsplit # noqa # http://daringfireball.net/2009/11/liberal_regex_for_matching_urls url_regex = re.compile( r'\b(([\w-]+://?|www[.])[^\s()<>]+(?:\([\w\d]+\)|([^[:punct:]\s]|/)))') def domain(url): """Return the domain part of a URL.""" return urlsplit(url)[1].split(':')[0] @task(ignore_result=True, serializer='pickle', compression='zlib') def crawl(url, seen=None): print('crawling: {0}'.format(url)) if not seen: seen = BloomFilter(capacity=50000, error_rate=0.0001) with Timeout(5, False): try: response = requests.get(url) except requests.exception.RequestError: return location = domain(url) wanted_urls = [] for url_match in url_regex.finditer(response.text): url = url_match.group(0) # To not destroy the internet, we only fetch URLs on the same domain. if url not in seen and location in domain(url): wanted_urls.append(url) seen.add(url) subtasks = group(crawl.s(url, seen) for url in wanted_urls) subtasks.delay()