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Web crawler
def compute_ranks(graph):
d = 0.8 # damping factor
numloops = 10
ranks = {}
npages = len(graph)
for page in graph:
ranks[page] = 1.0 / npages
for i in range(0, numloops):
newranks = {}
for page in graph:
newrank = (1 - d) / npages
for node in graph:
if page in graph[node]:
newrank = newrank + (d*ranks[node])/(len(graph[node]))
newranks[page] = newrank
ranks = newranks
return ranks
def crawl_web(seed): # returns index, graph of inlinks
tocrawl = [seed]
crawled = []
graph = {} # <url>, [list of pages it links to]
index = {}
while tocrawl:
page = tocrawl.pop()
if page not in crawled:
content = get_page(page)
add_page_to_index(index, page, content)
outlinks = get_all_links(content)
graph[page] = outlinks
union(tocrawl, outlinks)
crawled.append(page)
return index, graph
def get_page(url):
if url in cache:
return cache[url]
else:
return None
def get_next_target(page):
start_link = page.find('<a href=')
if start_link == -1:
return None, 0
start_quote = page.find('"', start_link)
end_quote = page.find('"', start_quote + 1)
url = page[start_quote + 1:end_quote]
return url, end_quote
def get_all_links(page):
links = []
while True:
url, endpos = get_next_target(page)
if url:
links.append(url)
page = page[endpos:]
else:
break
return links
def union(a, b):
for e in b:
if e not in a:
a.append(e)
def add_page_to_index(index, url, content):
words = content.split()
for word in words:
add_to_index(index, word, url)
def add_to_index(index, keyword, url):
if keyword in index:
index[keyword].append(url)
else:
index[keyword] = [url]
def lookup(index, keyword):
if keyword in index:
return index[keyword]
else:
return None
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