[REBASE ME] Crawl: enhance efficiency and output a tree

crawl/crawl.py

@@ -162,9 +162,9 @@ class CrawlingThread(Thread):
     """ A separate thread for the crawling task. This is needed to use asyncio,
     since the thread will need its own event loop. """
 
-    def __init__(self, user, url, queue):
+    def __init__(self, user, url, output_tree):
         global settings
-        self.queue = queue
+        self.output_tree = output_tree
         super(CrawlingThread, self).__init__()
         if user:
             settings.USER_AGENT = user.serialize_headers()
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ class CrawlingThread(Thread):
         tasks = []
         #tasks.append(async_crawler("http://plus.google.com/+Python"))
         #tasks.append(async_crawler('https://python.org/'))
-        tasks.append(async_crawler(self.url, self.queue))
+        tasks.append(async_crawler(self.url, self.output_tree))
 
         loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
         asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
@@ -220,39 +220,54 @@ async def async_print(url):
             url,
             datetime.now() - startup_time))
 
-async def async_crawler(url, queue):
-    queued = [url]
-    crawled = []
+
+class CrawlElem:
+    ''' Describes a crawled element, to be assembled into a tree '''
+
+    def __init__(self, url, parent):
+        self.url = url
+        self.parent = parent
+
+async def async_crawler(url, output_tree):
+    queued = [CrawlElem(url, None)]
+    crawled = set()
+    crawl_tree = []
+
     while queued and (len(crawled) < HARD_LIMIT):
         async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
             try:
-                url = queued.pop(0)
+                crawl_elt = queued.pop(0)
+                url = crawl_elt.url
             except IndexError:
                 print("Error queue is empty")
                 return crawled
+            crawled += url
             parsed_url = urlparse(url)
             print("Crawling {}".format(url))
             html = await PageGetter(session, url).get(ssl=False)
             if html:
+                crawl_tree.append(crawl_elt)
                 new_urls = url_getter(
                     html,
                     url,
                     parsed_url.scheme + "://" + parsed_url.netloc
                 )
-                crawled += [url]
                 if new_urls:
                     sampled = sample(
                         new_urls,
                         randrange(min(MAX_PER_PAGE, len(new_urls)))
                     )
-                    queued += [sample_url for sample_url in sampled if
-                              sample_url not in queued and sample_url not in
-                              crawled]
+                    queued += [
+                        CrawlElem(sample_url, crawl_elt)
+                        for sample_url in sampled
+                        if sample_url not in queued
+                        and sample_url not in crawled
+                    ]
     print(crawled)
-    queue.put(crawled)
+    output_tree += crawl_tree
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    queue = Queue()
-    crawl = CrawlingThread(None, "https://python.org/", queue)
+    crawl_tree = []
+    crawl = CrawlingThread(None, "https://python.org/", crawl_tree)
     crawl.start()
     crawl.join()