Difference between revisions of "Rewrite PageCreationBot"
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Revision as of 17:31, 15 August 2007
What (summary)
- New page-building bot
- Still relies on Java/Tomcat to do crawling (for now)
- Carefully tested
Why this is important
- We need to have control over the pages that our created on our site.
- The old bot was known to pollute the database; we need control over all the access points that could screw up our data.
DoneDone
- Creates news pages based on a template
- Monitoring and logging have been added (tests whether or not the bot succeeds)
- Hooked in to all the old points Bot was
- Checks robots.txt before spidering the website.