Difference between revisions of "Rewrite PageCreationBot"

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* Still relies on Java/Tomcat to do crawling (for now)
 
* Still relies on Java/Tomcat to do crawling (for now)
 
* Carefully tested
 
* Carefully tested
* This is essentially a 1-1 rewrite of the scraping pieces of the bot in ruby instead of Java.
 
  
 
== Why this is important ==
 
== Why this is important ==

Revision as of 22:05, 23 August 2007

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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.
  • Gaining mastery over the code so that we can add new features easily.


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.

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