CrawlyColly

README

Fast Crawler

The purpose of this crawler is to get all the pages of a website very quickly

It uses the sitemaps of a website to discover the pages The drawback is that if the pages aren't in the sitemap they won't be discovered. However, it is a very fast & efficient way to get thousands of pages in seconds.

Installation

• Install Golang

Use the crawler

• Create the folder urls with the command mkdir urls
• Set the websites your want to crawl in a file like urls_test, one url per line
• Compile with go build *.go
• Run with cat urls_test | ./crawl or if not compiled cat urls_test | go run *.go
• The websites' urls will be writen in urls_<www.yourwebsite.com>.csv

At the end of your crawling if you want to merge all the files just run in the folder urls for filename in $(ls *.csv); do sed 1d $filename >> ../final.csv; done

Disclaimer

Please be advised that even if this crawler doesn't visit every pages of a website, it can be very intensive for large websites. Feel free to make pull request to improve the crawler