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Architecture

Features

Crawlers

• many crawlers can be run concurrently, also remotely
• urls to be analysed are divided in several queues (depending on their depth/priority)
• urls/domains can be filtered using regular expressions
• normalize_url: urls can be normalized/rewritted using many options (max_depth, remove_queries, … )
  – normalize_url can be personalized for specific url/domains using regular expression matching
  – custom/external normalize_url functions are allowed
• custom/external body analyzers are supported: internally the ebot system (see ebot.hrl and ebot_plugin_body_analyzer_sample.erl) or better (async and possibly remote) outside developing a custom queue consumer
• external/internal url referrals can be saved to the database
• many other options: see files ebot.app and sys.config

Database

• the urls are saved to a NOSQL database (apache couchdb or riak) that support map/reduce queries: NOSQL database are more cheaper and more scalable than relational databases!
• supported backends: apache couchdb and riak (experimental)

Statistics

ebot statistics are saved to Round Robin Databases (using rrdtool)

Web Services

• web REST interface sfor
• managing start/stop of crawlers
• submitting urls to crawlers (sync or async)
• showing ebot statistics

Licence

GPL V3+