return from WebPage to indicate whether a link was actually crawlable and only actually crawl it if it was

crawler.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Need a docstring.
 import argparse
 import jinja2
 import os
+import asyncio
 from datetime import datetime
 from utils.helpers import (UrlPool, WebPage, RobotsTxt, sanitise_url)
 
@@ -57,12 +58,14 @@ def process_pool(base_url=None, uncrawled_urls=None, crawled_urls=None, robots=N
         # create a WebPage object for the URL
         current_page = WebPage(url=new_url, base_url=base_url, robots=robots)
         try:
-            current_page.run()
-            _urls = current_page.list_urls()
-            crawled_urls.add_to_pool(new_url)
+            succeeded = current_page.run()
         except Exception as e:
             print(e)
 
+        if succeeded:
+            _urls = current_page.list_urls()
+            crawled_urls.add_to_pool(new_url)
+
             for url in _urls:
                 sanitised_url = sanitise_url(url=url)
                 if sanitised_url not in crawled_urls.pool:

utils/helpers.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Utilities to provide various misc functions.
 '''
 
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import aiohttp
 import urllib.request
 import urllib.robotparser
 import urllib.error
@@ -104,8 +105,7 @@ class WebPage(object):
         pool if they start with the base URL.
         '''
         for url in self.discovered_hrefs:
-            if url.startswith(self.url):
-                if self.robots.check(url):
+            if url.startswith(self.base_url) and self.robots.check(url):
                 sanitised_url = sanitise_url(url=url)
                 self.urls_to_crawl.add(sanitised_url)
 
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ class WebPage(object):
         if self.source:
             self.find_links()
             self.parse_urls()
+            return True
+        else:
+            return False
 
 
 class RobotsTxt(object):