Hello --
We are using Nutch to crawl html content for Wikipedia articles. We
use static list urls as an input. To do this we've injected our list
of urls, set db.update.additions.allowed to false, and set the crawl
depth to 1.
- We iterate over the output segment files using
'SequenceFile.Reader' and pullout the 'string' as well as 'binary'
form of content.
reader = SequenceFile.Reader(filesystem, Path(sys.argv[1]), job)
key = reader.getKeyClass()()
content = reader.getValueClass()()
while reader.next(key, content):
content_text = String(content.getContent(),
"UTF-8").toString()
content_binary = content.getContent()
- I get empty content for some urls but the status in crawldb is set
to 'db_fetched'.
The value of content_text is "" and that of content_binary is
array('b',[])
- This is completely random in terms of when it happens and the urls
involved.
- This failure is completely silent as far as I can tell as nothing
can be seen in logs regarding this error.
Again, we are crawling wikipedia which is verifiable for it's content
and whether that content is accessible. We have tried manually getting
the problem urls and everything looked fine.
Thank you,
Viral Shah
