Micro Web Crawler in PHP & Manticore
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Yo!

Micro Web Crawler in PHP & Manticore

Yo! is the super thin layer for Manticore search server that extends official manticoresearch-php client with CLI tools and simple JS-less WebUI.

Features

  • MIME-based crawler with flexible filter settings by regular expressions, selectors, external links etc
  • Page snap history with local and remote mirrors support (including FTP protocol)
  • CLI tools for index administration and crontab tasks
  • JS-less frontend to run local or public search web portal
  • API tools to make search index distributed

Components

Install

  1. Install manticore, composer and php
  2. Grab latest Yo version git clone https://github.com/YGGverse/Yo.git
  3. Run composer update inside the project directory
  4. Copy and customize config file cp example/config.json config.json
  5. Make sure storage folder writable
  6. Run indexes initiation script php src/cli/index/init.php
  7. Announce new URL php src/cli/document/add.php URL
  8. Run crawler to grab the data php src/cli/document/crawl.php
  9. Test search results php src/cli/document/search.php '*'

Web UI

  1. cd src/webui
  2. php -S 127.0.0.1:8080
  3. open 127.0.0.1:8080 in browser

Documentation

CLI

Index

Init

Create initial index

php src/cli/index/init.php [reset]
  • reset - optional, reset existing index

Document

Add
php src/cli/document/add.php URL
  • URL - add new URL to the crawl queue
Crawl
php src/cli/document/crawl.php
Clean
php src/cli/document/clean.php
  • remove url duplicates
  • make index optimization
php src/cli/document/search.php '@title "*"' [limit]
  • query - required
  • limit - optional search results limit
Migration
YGGo

Import index from YGGo database

php src/cli/yggo/import.php 'host' 'port' 'user' 'password' 'database' [unique=off] [start=0] [limit=100]

Source DB fields required:

  • host
  • port
  • user
  • password
  • database
  • unique - optional, check for unique URL (takes more time)
  • start - optional, offset to start queue
  • limit - optional, limit queue

Instances

Yggdrasil

  • http://[201:23b4:991a:634d:8359:4521:5576:15b7]/yo/