# WWW-Crawler-Mojo

# 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.
* Detects network errors and retry with your own rules.
* Shuffles queue periodically if indicated.
* Crawls beyond basic authentication.
* Crawls even error documents.
* Form submitting emulation.

[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 5.79

## Synopsis

use WWW::Crawler::Mojo;

my $bot = WWW::Crawler::Mojo->new;

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

$cb = sub {
my ($bot, $enqueue, $job, $context) = @_;
$enqueue->() if (...); # enqueue this job
}

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

$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)

## Examples

Restricting scraping URLs by status code.

$bot->on(res => sub {
my ($bot, $scrape, $job, $res) = @_;
return unless ($res->code == 200);
$scrape->();
});

Restricting scraping URLs by host.

$bot->on(res => sub {
my ($bot, $scrape, $job, $res) = @_;
return unless if ($job->url->host eq 'example.com');
$scrape->();
});

Restrict following URLs by depth.

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

$scrape->(sub {
my ($bot, $enqueue, $job, $context) = @_;
return unless ($job->depth < 5)
$enqueue->();
});
});

Restrict following URLs by host.

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

$scrape->(sub {
my ($bot, $enqueue, $job, $context) = @_;
$enqueue->() if $job->url->host eq 'example.com';
});
});

Restrict following URLs by referrer's host.

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

$scrape->(sub {
my ($bot, $enqueue, $job, $context) = @_;
$enqueue->() if $job->referrer->url->host eq 'example.com';
});
});

Excepting following URLs by path.

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

$scrape->(sub {
my ($bot, $enqueue, $job, $context) = @_;
$enqueue->() unless ($job->url->path =~ qr{^/foo/});
});
});

Speed up.

$bot->max_conn(5);
$bot->max_conn_per_host(5);

Authentication. The user agent automatically reuses the credential for the host.

$bot->enqueue('http://jamadam:[email protected]');

You can fulfill any prerequisites such as login form submittion so that a login session will be established with cookie or something.

my $bot = WWW::Crawler::Mojo->new;
$bot->ua->post('http://example.com/admin/login', form => {
username => 'jamadam',
password => 'password',
});
$bot->enqueue('http://example.com/admin/');
$bot->crawl

## 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.