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Exercise: Web Crawler
// Reference: https://github.com/golang/tour/blob/release-branch.go1.4/solutions/webcrawler.go
package main
import (
"fmt"
"sync"
)
type Fetcher interface {
// Fetch returns the body of URL and
// a slice of URLs found on that page.
Fetch(url string) (body string, urls []string, err error)
}
// Crawl uses fetcher to recursively crawl
// pages starting with url, to a maximum of depth.
var fetched = struct {
m map[string]bool
sync.Mutex
}{m: make(map[string]bool)}
// Crawl uses fetcher to recursively crawl
// pages starting with url, to a maximum of depth.
func Crawl(url string, depth int, fetcher Fetcher) {
if depth <= 0 {
fmt.Printf("<- Done with %v, depth 0.\n", url)
return
}
fetched.Lock()
if _, ok := fetched.m[url]; ok {
fetched.Unlock()
fmt.Printf("<- Done with %v, already fetched.\n", url)
return
}
// We mark the url to be fetching to avoid others fetching it at the same time.
fetched.m[url] = true
fetched.Unlock()
// We load it concurrently.
body, urls, err := fetcher.Fetch(url)
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("<- Error on %v: %v\n", url, err)
return
}
fmt.Printf("Found: %s %q\n", url, body)
done := make(chan bool)
for i, u := range urls {
fmt.Printf("-> Crawling child %v/%v of %v : %v.\n", i, len(urls), url, u)
go func(url string) {
Crawl(url, depth-1, fetcher)
done <- true
}(u)
}
for i, u := range urls {
fmt.Printf("<- [%v] %v/%v Waiting for child %v.\n", url, i, len(urls), u)
<-done
}
fmt.Printf("<- Done with %v\n", url)
}
func main() {
Crawl("https://golang.org/", 4, fetcher)
}
// fakeFetcher is Fetcher that returns canned results.
type fakeFetcher map[string]*fakeResult
type fakeResult struct {
body string
urls []string
}
func (f fakeFetcher) Fetch(url string) (string, []string, error) {
if res, ok := f[url]; ok {
return res.body, res.urls, nil
}
return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("not found: %s", url)
}
// fetcher is a populated fakeFetcher.
var fetcher = fakeFetcher{
"https://golang.org/": &fakeResult{
"The Go Programming Language",
[]string{
"https://golang.org/pkg/",
"https://golang.org/cmd/",
},
},
"https://golang.org/pkg/": &fakeResult{
"Packages",
[]string{
"https://golang.org/",
"https://golang.org/cmd/",
"https://golang.org/pkg/fmt/",
"https://golang.org/pkg/os/",
},
},
"https://golang.org/pkg/fmt/": &fakeResult{
"Package fmt",
[]string{
"https://golang.org/",
"https://golang.org/pkg/",
},
},
"https://golang.org/pkg/os/": &fakeResult{
"Package os",
[]string{
"https://golang.org/",
"https://golang.org/pkg/",
},
},
}
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