Parallel processing with retry on failure with exponential backoff - Simplified URL validation and normalisation - respecting Robots.txt

crawl4ai/scraper/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+from .async_web_scraper import AsyncWebScraper
+from .bfs_scraper_strategy import BFSScraperStrategy

crawl4ai/scraper/async_web_scraper.py

@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ class AsyncWebScraper:
         self.batch_processor = BatchProcessor(batch_size, concurrency_limit)
 
     async def ascrape(self, url: str) -> ScraperResult:
-        crawl_result = await self.crawler.arun(url)
+        return await self.strategy.ascrape(url, self.crawler)
-        return await self.strategy.ascrape(url, crawl_result, self.crawler)
 
     async def ascrape_many(self, urls: List[str]) -> List[ScraperResult]:
         all_results = []

crawl4ai/scraper/bfs_scraper_strategy.py

@@ -5,46 +5,127 @@ from .models import ScraperResult
 from ..models import CrawlResult
 from ..async_webcrawler import AsyncWebCrawler
 import asyncio
-from urllib.parse import urljoin
+import validators
+from urllib.parse import urljoin,urlparse,urlunparse
+from urllib.robotparser import RobotFileParser
+import time
+from aiolimiter import AsyncLimiter
+from tenacity import retry, stop_after_attempt, wait_exponential
+from collections import defaultdict
+import logging
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
+
+rate_limiter = AsyncLimiter(1, 1)  # 1 request per second
 
 class BFSScraperStrategy(ScraperStrategy):
-    def __init__(self, max_depth: int, filter_chain: FilterChain, url_scorer: URLScorer):
+    def __init__(self, max_depth: int, filter_chain: FilterChain, url_scorer: URLScorer, max_concurrent: int = 5):
         self.max_depth = max_depth
         self.filter_chain = filter_chain
         self.url_scorer = url_scorer
+        self.max_concurrent = max_concurrent
+        # 9. Crawl Politeness
+        self.last_crawl_time = defaultdict(float)
+        self.min_crawl_delay = 1  # 1 second delay between requests to the same domain
+        # 5. Robots.txt Compliance
+        self.robot_parsers = {}
     
-    async def ascrape(self, start_url: str, initial_crawl_result: CrawlResult, crawler: AsyncWebCrawler) -> ScraperResult:
+    # Robots.txt Parser
+    def get_robot_parser(self, url: str) -> RobotFileParser:
+        domain = urlparse(url).netloc
+        if domain not in self.robot_parsers:
+            rp = RobotFileParser()
+            rp.set_url(f"https://{domain}/robots.txt")
+            rp.read()
+            self.robot_parsers[domain] = rp
+        return self.robot_parsers[domain]
+    
+    # Retry with exponential backoff
+    @retry(stop=stop_after_attempt(3), wait=wait_exponential(multiplier=1, min=4, max=10))
+    async def retry_crawl(self, crawler: AsyncWebCrawler, url: str) -> CrawlResult:
+        return await crawler.arun(url)
+    
+    async def process_url(self, url: str, depth: int, crawler: AsyncWebCrawler, queue: asyncio.PriorityQueue, visited: set) -> CrawlResult:
+        def normalize_url(url: str) -> str:
+            parsed = urlparse(url)
+            return urlunparse(parsed._replace(fragment=""))
+        
+        # URL Validation
+        if not validators.url(url):
+            logging.warning(f"Invalid URL: {url}")
+            return None
+        
+        # Robots.txt Compliance
+        if not self.get_robot_parser(url).can_fetch("YourUserAgent", url):
+            logging.info(f"Skipping {url} as per robots.txt")
+            return None
+        
+        # Crawl Politeness
+        domain = urlparse(url).netloc
+        time_since_last_crawl = time.time() - self.last_crawl_time[domain]
+        if time_since_last_crawl < self.min_crawl_delay:
+            await asyncio.sleep(self.min_crawl_delay - time_since_last_crawl)
+        self.last_crawl_time[domain] = time.time()
+
+        # Rate Limiting
+        async with rate_limiter:
+            # Error Handling
+            try:
+                crawl_result = await self.retry_crawl(crawler, url)
+            except Exception as e:
+                logging.error(f"Error crawling {url}: {str(e)}")
+                crawl_result = CrawlResult(url=url, html="", success=False, status_code=0, error_message=str(e))
+        
+        if not crawl_result.success:
+            # Logging and Monitoring
+            logging.error(f"Failed to crawl URL: {url}. Error: {crawl_result.error_message}")
+            # Error Categorization
+            if crawl_result.status_code == 404:
+                self.remove_from_future_crawls(url)
+            elif crawl_result.status_code == 503:
+                await self.add_to_retry_queue(url)
+            return crawl_result
+        
+        # Content Type Checking
+        # if 'text/html' not in crawl_result.response_header.get('Content-Type', ''):
+        #     logging.info(f"Skipping non-HTML content: {url}")
+        #     return crawl_result
+
+        visited.add(url)
+
+        # Process links
+        for link_type in ["internal", "external"]:
+            for link in crawl_result.links[link_type]:
+                absolute_link = urljoin(url, link['href'])
+                normalized_link = normalize_url(absolute_link)
+                if self.filter_chain.apply(normalized_link) and normalized_link not in visited:
+                    new_depth = depth + 1
+                    if new_depth <= self.max_depth:
+                        # URL Scoring
+                        score = self.url_scorer.score(normalized_link)
+                        await queue.put((score, new_depth, normalized_link))
+
+        return crawl_result
+
+    async def ascrape(self, start_url: str, crawler: AsyncWebCrawler) -> ScraperResult:
         queue = asyncio.PriorityQueue()
-        queue.put_nowait((0, 0, start_url))  # (score, depth, url)
+        queue.put_nowait((0, 0, start_url))
         visited = set()
         crawled_urls = []
         extracted_data = {}
 
         while not queue.empty():
-            _, depth, url = await queue.get()
+            tasks = []
-            if depth > self.max_depth or url in visited:
+            while not queue.empty() and len(tasks) < self.max_concurrent:
-                continue
+                _, depth, url = await queue.get()
-            crawl_result = initial_crawl_result if url == start_url else await crawler.arun(url)
+                if url not in visited:
-            visited.add(url)
+                    task = asyncio.create_task(self.process_url(url, depth, crawler, queue, visited))
-            crawled_urls.append(url)
+                    tasks.append(task)
-            extracted_data[url]=crawl_result
+
-            if crawl_result.success == False:
+            if tasks:
-                print(f"failed to crawl -- {url}")
+                results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
-                continue
+                for result in results:
-            for internal in crawl_result.links["internal"]:
+                    if result:
-                link = internal['href']
+                        crawled_urls.append(result.url)
-                is_special_uri = any(link.startswith(scheme) for scheme in ('tel:', 'mailto:', 'sms:', 'geo:', 'fax:', 'file:', 'data:', 'sip:', 'ircs:', 'magnet:'))
+                        extracted_data[result.url] = result
-                is_fragment = '#' in link
-                if not (is_fragment or is_special_uri):
-                    # To fix partial links: eg:'/support' to 'https://example.com/support'
-                    absolute_link = urljoin(url, link)
-                    if self.filter_chain.apply(absolute_link) and absolute_link not in visited:
-                        score = self.url_scorer.score(absolute_link)
-                        await queue.put((1 / score, depth + 1, absolute_link))
-            for external in crawl_result.links["external"]:
-                link = external['href']
-                if self.filter_chain.apply(link) and link not in visited:
-                    score = self.url_scorer.score(link)
-                    await queue.put((1 / score, depth + 1, link))
 
         return ScraperResult(url=start_url, crawled_urls=crawled_urls, extracted_data=extracted_data)

crawl4ai/scraper/models.py

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 from typing import List, Dict
+from ..models import CrawlResult
 
 class ScraperResult(BaseModel):
     url: str
     crawled_urls: List[str]
-    extracted_data: Dict
+    extracted_data: Dict[str,CrawlResult]

crawl4ai/scraper/scraper_strategy.py

@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ from ..async_webcrawler import AsyncWebCrawler
 
 class ScraperStrategy(ABC):
     @abstractmethod
-    async def ascrape(self, url: str, crawl_result: CrawlResult, crawler: AsyncWebCrawler) -> ScraperResult:
+    async def ascrape(self, url: str, crawler: AsyncWebCrawler) -> ScraperResult:
         pass