Hi, Yes you are going to need code, and a lot more than just that, probably including dropping the 'every two hour' requirement.
For your case you need either site-specific price extraction, which is easy but a lot of work for 500+ sites. Or you need a more complicated generic algorithm, which is a lot of work too. Both can be implemented as Nutch ParseFilter plugins and need Java code to run. Your next problem is daily volume, every product 12x per day for 500+ shops times many products. You can ignore bandwidth and processing, that is easy. But you are going to be blocked within a few days by at least a good amount of sites. We once built a price checker crawler too, but the client's requirement for very high interval checks could not be met easily without the use of costly proxies to avoid being blocked, hardware and network costs. They dropped the requirement. Good luck Markus -----Original message----- > From:Eric Valencia <ericlvalen...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday 6th March 2018 21:17 > To: user@nutch.apache.org > Subject: Re: Need Tutorial on Nutch > > Yash, well, I want to monitor the price for every item in the top 500 > retail websites every two hours, 24/7/365. Java is needed? > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Yash Thenuan Thenuan < > rit2014...@iiita.ac.in> wrote: > > > If you want simple crawlung then Not at all. > > But having experience with java will help you to fulfil your personal > > requirements. > > > > On 7 Mar 2018 01:42, "Eric Valencia" <ericlvalen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Does this require knowing Java proficiently? > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 10:51 AM Semyon Semyonov < > > semyon.semyo...@mail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Here is an unpleasant truth - there is no up to date tutorial for > > Nutch. > > > > To make it even more interesting, sometimes the tutorial can contradict > > > > real behavior of Nutch, because of lately introduced features/bugs. If > > > you > > > > find such cases, please try to fix and contribute to the project. > > > > > > > > Welcome to the open source world. > > > > > > > > Though, my recommendations as a person who started with Nutch less > > then a > > > > year ago : > > > > 1) If you just need a simple crawl, you are in luck. Simply run crawl > > > > script or several steps according to the Nutch crawl tutorial. > > > > 2) If it is bit more comlex you start to face problems either with > > > > configuration or with bugs. Therefore, first have a look at Nutch List > > > > Archive http://nutch.apache.org/mailing_lists.html , if it doesnt work > > > > try to figure out yourself, if that doesnt work ask here or at > > developer > > > > list. > > > > 3) In most cases, you HAVE to open the code and fix/discover something. > > > > Nutch is really complicated system and to understand it properly you > > can > > > > easily spend 2-3 months trying to get the full basic understanding of > > the > > > > system. It gets even worse if you don't know Hadoop. If you dont I do > > > > recomend to read "Hadoop. The definitive guide", because, well, Nutch > > is > > > > Hadoop. > > > > > > > > Here we are, no pain, no gain. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2018 at 7:42 PM > > > > From: "Eric Valencia" <ericlvalen...@gmail.com> > > > > To: user@nutch.apache.org > > > > Subject: Re: Need Tutorial on Nutch > > > > Thank you kindly Yash. Yes, I did try some of the tutorials actually > > but > > > > they seem to be missing the complete amount of steps required to > > > > successfully scrape in nutch. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 10:37 AM Yash Thenuan Thenuan < > > > > rit2014...@iiita.ac.in> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I would suggest to start with the documentation on nutch's website. > > > > > You can get a Idea about how to start crawling and all. > > > > > Apart from that there are no proper tutorials as such. > > > > > Just start crawling if you got stuck somewhere try to find something > > > > > related to that on Google and nutch mailing list archives. > > > > > Ask questions if nothing helps. > > > > > > > > > > On 7 Mar 2018 00:01, "Eric Valencia" <ericlvalen...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I'm a beginner in Nutch and need the best tutorials to get started. > > Can > > > > > you guys let me know how you would advise yourselves if starting > > today > > > > > (like me)? > > > > > > > > > > Eric > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
