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March 24, 2011 22:19
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Looks for the existence of dirs on a numbered list. Done in order to learn net/http and threads.
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
# | |
################################################### | |
# crawler.rb # | |
# Pedro Vanzella - pedro@pedrovanzella.com # | |
# # | |
# Looks for the existence of directories on a # | |
# numbered, but sparse, list # | |
################################################### | |
require "net/http" | |
require "uri" | |
def crawl(a,b) | |
(a..b).each do |n| | |
uri = URI.parse("http://twitpic.com/#{n}/") | |
# I know twitpic has alphanumeric URLs, but this was not the original URL anyway ;) | |
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port) | |
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri) | |
begin | |
response = http.request(request) | |
puts "[#{n}] => [#{response.code}]" unless response.code == '404' | |
rescue Timeout::Error | |
puts "Timeout on [#{n}]. Perhaps we're being throtled?" | |
end | |
end | |
end | |
if ARGV[2] == nil | |
puts "USAGE: ruby crawler.rb FIRST LAST THREADS" | |
exit | |
end | |
x = ARGV[0].to_i | |
y = ARGV[1].to_i | |
threads = ARGV[2].to_i | |
t = [] # Threads array | |
threads.times do |n| | |
# Watch for division by zero! | |
first = x + (n)*(y / threads) | |
last = x + (n + 1)*(y / threads) - 1 | |
# I've got an off-by-some on uneven divisions here, somewhere. | |
puts "[#{n}] (#{first}..#{last})" | |
t[n] = Thread.new { crawl(first, last) } | |
end | |
# Join our threads | |
t.each do |n| | |
n.join | |
end |
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