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I'm new to search engines and web crawlers. Now I want to store all the original pages in a particular web site as html files, but with Apache Nutch I can only get the binary database files. How do I get the original html files with Nutch?
Does Nutch support it? If not, what other tools can I use to achieve my goal.(The tools that support distributed crawling are better.)
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Well, nutch will write the crawled data in binary form so if if you want that to be saved in html format, you will have to modify the code. (this will be painful if you are new to nutch).
If you want quick and easy solution for getting html pages:
wget for each url.EDIT:
Writing a your own nutch plugin will be great. Your problem will get solved plus you can contribute to nutch by submitting your work !!! If you are new to nutch (in terms of code & design), then you will have to invest lot of time building a new plugin ... else its easy to do.
Few pointers for helping your initiative:
Here is a page which talks about writing own nutch plugin.
Start with Fetcher.java. See lines 647-648. That is the place where you can get the fetched content on per url basis (for those pages which got fetched successfully).
pstatus = output(fit.url, fit.datum, content, status, CrawlDatum.STATUS_FETCH_SUCCESS);
updateStatus(content.getContent().length);
You should add code right after this to invoke your plugin. Pass content object to it. By now, you would have guessed that content.getContent() is the content for url you want. Inside the plugin code, write it to some file. Filename should be based on the url name else it will be difficult to work with that. Url can be obtained by fit.url.
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You must do modifications in run Nutch in Eclipse.
When you are able to run, open Fetcher.java and add the lines between "content saver" command lines.
case ProtocolStatus.SUCCESS: // got a page
pstatus = output(fit.url, fit.datum, content, status, CrawlDatum.STATUS_FETCH_SUCCESS, fit.outlinkDepth);
updateStatus(content.getContent().length);'
//------------------------------------------- content saver ---------------------------------------------\\
String filename = "savedsites//" + content.getUrl().replace('/', '-');
File file = new File(filename);
file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
boolean exist = file.createNewFile();
if (!exist) {
System.out.println("File exists.");
} else {
FileWriter fstream = new FileWriter(file);
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(fstream);
out.write(content.toString().substring(content.toString().indexOf("<!DOCTYPE html")));
out.close();
System.out.println("File created successfully.");
}
//------------------------------------------- content saver ---------------------------------------------\\
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