# WWW-Crawler-Mojo

WWW::Crawler::Mojo is a web crawling framework written in Perl on top of mojo toolkit, allowing you to write your own crawler rapidly.

***This software is considered to be alpha quality and isn't recommended for regular usage.***

## Features

* Easy to rule your crawler.
* Allows to use [Mojo::URL] for URL manipulations, [Mojo::Message::Response] for response manipulation and [Mojo::DOM] for DOM inspection.
* Internally uses [Mojo::UserAgent] which supports non-blocking I/O HTTP and WebSocket with IPv6, TLS, SNI, IDNA, HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy, Comet (long polling), keep-alive, connection pooling, timeout, cookie, multipart, gzip compression.
* Throttle the connection with max connection and max connection per host options.
* Depth detection.
* Tracks 301 HTTP redirects.
* Network error detection.
* Retry with your own rules.
* Shuffling the queue periodically.
* Peeping server for crawler development.
* Crawl beyond basic authentication.

[Mojo::URL]:http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojo/URL
[Mojo::DOM]:http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojo/DOM
[Mojo::Message::Response]:http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojo/Message/Response
[Mojo::UserAgent]:http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojo/UserAgent

## Requirements

* Perl 5.14
* Mojolicious 5.75

## Usage

   use WWW::Crawler::Mojo;

   my $bot = WWW::Crawler::Mojo->new;

   $bot->on(res => sub {
       my ($bot, $scrape, $job, $res) = @_;

       $scrape->() if (...); # collect URLs from this document
   });

   $bot->on(refer => sub {
       my ($bot, $enqueue, $job, $context) = @_;

       $enqueue->() if (...); # enqueue this job
   });

   $bot->enqueue('http://example.com/');
   $bot->crawl;

## Installation

   $ cpanm WWW::Crawler::Mojo

## Documentation

* [WWW::Crawler::Mojo](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?WWW%3A%3ACrawler%3A%3AMojo)
* [WWW::Crawler::Mojo::Job](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?WWW%3A%3ACrawler%3A%3AMojo%3A%3AJob)
* [WWW::Crawler::Mojo::UserAgent](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?WWW%3A%3ACrawler%3A%3AMojo%3A%3AUserAgent)

## Other examples

* [WWW-Flatten](https://github.com/jamadam/WWW-Flatten)
* See the scripts under the example directory.

## Copyright

Copyright (C) jamadam

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.