OwlCrawler

It's a distributed web crawler that uses nats.io to coordinate work, written in Go.

Dependencies

• CouchDB 1.x (tested on 1.6.1)
• gnatsd

Building.

Build the two workers

go build  -tags=fetcherExec -o fetcher fetcher.go && \
go build  -tags=extractorExec -o extractor extractor.go

Setup

1. Setup couchdb with at least one admin user, you can follow the instructions here
2. create a file .couchdb.json and place it in your $HOME directory

Sample .couchdb.json

```

{ "user": "user-here", "password": "super-secret-password", "url": "http://localhost:5984/owl-crawler" }

```

3. create a file .gnatsd.json and place it in your $HOME directory

Sample .gnatsd.json

```
{
  "URL": "nats://owlcrawler:[email protected]:4222"
}
```

4. Start gnatsd with a user and password (use a config file, but for a quick test you can pass parameters):

~/gnatsd --user owlcrawler --pass natsd_password

On terminal 1 run:

./extractor -logtostderr=true -v=3

On terminal 2 run:

./fetcher -logtostderr=true -v=3

On terminal 3 run:

cd webapp
go build && ./webapp -alsologtostderr=true

On terminal 4 run:

cd webapp
grunt serve