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The crawl utility starts a depth-first traversal of the web at the
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specified URLs. It stores all JPEG images that match the configured
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constraints. Crawl is fairly fast and allows for graceful termination.
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After terminating crawl, it is possible to restart it at exactly
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the same spot where it was terminated. Crawl keeps a persistent
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database that allows multiple crawls without revisiting sites.
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The main reason for writing crawl was the lack of simple open source
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web crawlers. Crawl is only a few thousand lines of code and fairly
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easy to debug and customize.
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Some of the main features:
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- Saves encountered JPEG images
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- Image selection based on regular expressions and size contrainsts
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- Resume previous crawl after graceful termination
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- Persistent database of visited URLs
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- Very small and efficient code
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- Supports robots.txt
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WWW: http://www.monkey.org/~provos/crawl/
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- Pete
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petef@databits.net
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