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## Thoughts
* ~~strip hashes and everything following (as they're in-page anchors)~~
* ~~strip args~~
* ~~use `pop()` on the set instead of `.remove()`~~
* ~~return false once the set is empty~~
* ~~`WebPage.parse_urls()` needs to compare startswith to base url~~
* ~~ignore any links which aren't to pages~~
* ~~better url checking to get bare domain~~ #wontfix
* ~~remove trailing slash from any discovered url~~
* ~~investigate lxml parser~~
* ~~remove base url from initial urls with and without trailing slash~~
* ~~investigate using [tldextract](https://github.com/john-kurkowski/tldextract) to match urls~~ #wontfix
* ~~implement parsing of [robots.txt](http://docs.w3cub.com/python~3.6/library/urllib.robotparser/)~~
* ~~investigate [gzip encoding](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36383227/avoid-downloading-images-using-beautifulsoup-and-urllib-request)~~
* ~~implement some kind of progress display~~
* async
* better exception handling
* randomise output filename
### Async bits
in `__main__`:
```python
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
try:
loop.run_until_complete(main())
finally:
loop.close()
```
* initialises loop and runs it to completion
* needs to handle errors (try/except/finally)
```python
async def run(args=None):
tasks = []
for url in pool:
tasks.append(url)
# for i in range(10):
# tasks.append(asyncio.ensure_future(myCoroutine(i)))
# gather completed tasks
await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
```
Getting the contents of the page needs to be async too
```python
async def get_source():
blah
blah
await urlopen(url)
```