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web-scraper/utils/helpers.py

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#!/usr/bin/env python
'''
Utilities to provide various misc functions.
'''
import aiohttp
import asyncio
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib.error
from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlsplit
import urllib.request
import urllib.robotparser
class AsyncCrawler(object):
'''
docstring
'''
def __init__(self, baseurl=None, robots=None, concurrency=None):
self.baseurl = baseurl
self.robots = robots
self.crawled = set()
self.headers = {'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0'}
self.client_session = None
self.semaphore = asyncio.BoundedSemaphore(concurrency)
async def crawl_url(self, url=None):
'''
Crawls the given URL and finds all new URLs in the initial page.
'''
urls = []
source = await self.get_source(url)
if source:
urls = self.find_all_urls(source)
return urls
def validate_url(self, url=None):
'''
Ensures we have a valid URL to crawl and that the site's robots.txt
allows it.
'''
# ensure the URL is in a sane format
url = standardise_url(url=url, base_url=self.baseurl)
if url and self.robots.check(url=url):
return url
else:
return False
async def get_source(self, url=None):
'''
Obtains the URL's source, provided it is HTML. Usage of semaphores
ensures only a certain number of coroutines can run at once.
'''
async with self.semaphore:
async with self.client_session.head(url, timeout=5) as head:
try:
data = await head.read()
except Exception as e:
print(e)
if 'text/html' in head.headers['Content-Type']:
async with self.client_session.get(url, timeout=5) as resp:
try:
source = await resp.read()
return source
except Exception:
return None
def find_all_urls(self, source=None):
'''
Find all URLs in a page's source. Returns a list of URLs which have
been validated as local to the starting URL.
'''
urls = []
html = BeautifulSoup(source, 'lxml')
hrefs = html.find_all('a', href=True)
# build a set of URLs which are valid and haven't been crawled yet
for href in hrefs:
url = self.validate_url(url=href['href'])
if url and url not in self.crawled:
urls.append(url)
return urls
async def run(self, urls=None):
'''
Crawls a batch of URLs of any size (resource usage is bounded by n
semaphores (where n = concurrency). Returns a set of URLs to be added
to the list of URLs which need to be crawled (find_all_urls only returns
unseen URLs).
'''
tasks = []
all_urls = set()
for url in urls:
# mark the URL as seen.
self.crawled.add(url)
# create an coroutine to crawl the URL.
tasks.append(self.crawl_url(url))
# wait for all tasks to complete.
for task in asyncio.as_completed(tasks):
urls = None
try:
# completed.append((await task))
urls = await task
except Exception as e:
print(e)
# add the URLs to a set to be returned.
if urls:
for url in urls:
print('Found: {0}'.format(url))
all_urls.add(url)
return all_urls
async def main(self):
'''
Runs a crawl with batches of URLs. Once complete returns a list of all
crawled URLs.
'''
self.client_session = aiohttp.ClientSession(headers=self.headers)
to_crawl = []
to_crawl.append(self.baseurl)
print('Crawling: {0}'.format(self.baseurl))
while len(to_crawl) > 0:
discovered_urls = await self.run(urls=to_crawl)
# empty toe crawl list and then add all newly discovered URLs for
# the next iteration.
to_crawl.clear()
to_crawl.extend(discovered_urls)
# close the ssions once all URLs have been crawled.
await self.client_session.close()
return self.crawled
class RobotsTxt(object):
'''
needs a docstring
'''
def __init__(self, base_url=None):
'''
Manually retrieve robots.txt to allow us to set the user-agent (works
around sites which disallow access to robots.txt without a sane
user-agent).
'''
self.base_url = base_url
self.headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0'}
robots_url = urljoin(self.base_url, 'robots.txt')
request = urllib.request.Request(robots_url, headers=self.headers)
robots = urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser()
robots.set_url(robots_url)
try:
response = urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=5)
except urllib.error.HTTPError:
# if robots.txt doesn't exist then allow all URLs to be crawled.
robots.allow_all = True
else:
data = response.read()
decoded_data = data.decode("utf-8").splitlines()
robots.parse(decoded_data)
self.robots = robots
def check(self, url):
'''
Test if robots allows us to crawl that URL.
'''
return self.robots.can_fetch("*", url)
def standardise_url(url=None, base_url=None):
'''
If `base_url` is None then we attempt to standarise the URL to ensure it can
be prepended to relative URLs. If no scheme has been provided then we default
to http as any sane https-only site should 301 redirect http > https.
If `base_url` is set, we standardise URLs to strip queries and fragments (we
don't want to scrape in-page anchors etc). Any relative URLs will be appended
to the base url.
Returns a standardised URL as a string.
'''
default_proto = 'http'
delim = '://'
file_extensions = ('/', 'htm', 'html', 'xhtml', 'php', 'asp', 'aspx', 'cfm')
split_url = urlsplit(url)
if not base_url:
# This will sanitise the initial url provided by the user.
if split_url.scheme and split_url.scheme.startswith('http'):
return "".join([split_url.scheme, delim, split_url.netloc])
elif (split_url.path and not split_url.scheme and not split_url.netloc):
return "".join([default_proto, delim, split_url.path])
else:
# if url.endswith(file_extensions):
# Sanitise discovered URLs. We already expect them in the format
# protocol://base_url/path
if url.startswith('/'):
return urljoin(base_url, split_url.path)
elif url.startswith(base_url):
return "".join([split_url.scheme, delim, split_url.netloc, split_url.path])
return None