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Elasticsearch River Web

Overview

Elasticsearch River Web Plugin is a web crawler for Elasticsearch. This plugin provides a feature to crawl web sites and extract the content by CSS Query.

Version

River Web elasticsearch
master 1.4.X
1.4.0 1.4.1
1.3.1 1.3.4
1.2.0 1.2.1
1.1.2 1.1.1
1.1.1 1.0.2
1.0.1 0.90.7

Issues/Questions

Please file an issue. (Japanese forum is here.)

Installation

Install Quartz Plugin

River Web plugin depends on Quartz plugin. Quartz plugin needs to be installed before installing River Web plugin.

$ $ES_HOME/bin/plugin --install org.codelibs/elasticsearch-quartz/1.0.1

Install River Web Plugin

$ $ES_HOME/bin/plugin --install org.codelibs/elasticsearch-river-web/1.4.0

Usage

Create Index To Store Crawl Data

An index is needed to store crawl data before starting a river. For example, to store data to "webindex", create it as below:

$ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/webindex'

and then create a mapping setting if using "overwrite" option:

$ curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/webindex/my_web/_mapping" -d '
{
  "my_web" : {
    "dynamic_templates" : [
      {
        "url" : {
          "match" : "url",
          "mapping" : {
            "type" : "string",
            "store" : "yes",
            "index" : "not_analyzed"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "method" : {
          "match" : "method",
          "mapping" : {
            "type" : "string",
            "store" : "yes",
            "index" : "not_analyzed"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "charSet" : {
          "match" : "charSet",
          "mapping" : {
            "type" : "string",
            "store" : "yes",
            "index" : "not_analyzed"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "mimeType" : {
          "match" : "mimeType",
          "mapping" : {
            "type" : "string",
            "store" : "yes",
            "index" : "not_analyzed"
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}'

"my_web" is a type given by your river name or "crawl.type".

Register Crawl Data

A crawling configuration is created by registering a river as below. This example crawls sites of http://www.codelibs.org/ and http://fess.codelibs.org/ at 6:00am.

$ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_river/my_web/_meta' -d '{
    "type" : "web",
    "crawl" : {
        "index" : "webindex",
        "url" : ["http://www.codelibs.org/", "http://fess.codelibs.org/"],
        "includeFilter" : ["http://www.codelibs.org/.*", "http://fess.codelibs.org/.*"],
        "maxDepth" : 3,
        "maxAccessCount" : 100,
        "numOfThread" : 5,
        "interval" : 1000,
        "target" : [
          {
            "pattern" : {
              "url" : "http://www.codelibs.org/.*",
              "mimeType" : "text/html"
            },
            "properties" : {
              "title" : {
                "text" : "title"
              },
              "body" : {
                "text" : "body"
              },
              "bodyAsHtml" : {
                "html" : "body"
              },
              "projects" : {
                "text" : "ul.nav-list li a",
                "isArray" : true
              }
            }
          },
          {
            "pattern" : {
              "url" : "http://fess.codelibs.org/.*",
              "mimeType" : "text/html"
            },
            "properties" : {
              "title" : {
                "text" : "title"
              },
              "body" : {
                "text" : "body",
                "trimSpaces" : true
              },
              "menus" : {
                "text" : "ul.nav-list li a",
                "isArray" : true
              }
            }
          }
        ]
    },
    "schedule" : {
        "cron" : "0 0 6 * * ?"
    }
}'

"my_web" is a configuration name for River, and you can replace it with one you want.

The configuration is:

Property Type Description
crawl.index string Stored index name.
crawl.type string Stored type name.
crawl.url array Start point of URL for crawling.
crawl.includeFilter array White list of URL for crawling.
crawl.excludeFilter array Black list of URL for crawling.
crawl.maxDepth int Depth of crawling documents.
crawl.maxAccessCount int The number of crawling documents.
crawl.numOfThread int The number of crawler threads.
crawl.interval int Interval time (ms) to crawl documents.
crawl.incremental boolean Incremental crawling.
crawl.overwrite boolean Delete documents of old duplicated url.
crawl.userAgent string User-agent name when crawling.
crawl.robotsTxt boolean If you want to ignore robots.txt, false.
crawl.authentications object Specify BASIC/DIGEST/NTLM authentication info.
crawl.target.urlPattern string URL pattern to extract contents by CSS Query.
crawl.target.properties.name string "name" is used as a property name in the index.
crawl.target.properties.name.text string CSS Query for the property value.
crawl.target.properties.name.html string CSS Query for the property value.
crawl.target.properties.name.script string Rewrite the property value by Script(Groovy).
schedule.cron string Cron format to start a crawler.

Unregister Crawl Data

If you want to stop the crawler, type as below: (replace my_web with your river name)

$ curl -XDELETE 'localhost:9200/_river/my_web/'

Examples

Full Text Search for Your site (ex. http://fess.codelibs.org/)

$ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_river/fess/_meta' -d '{
    "type" : "web",
    "crawl" : {
        "index" : "webindex",
        "url" : ["http://fess.codelibs.org/"],
        "includeFilter" : ["http://fess.codelibs.org/.*"],
        "maxDepth" : 3,
        "maxAccessCount" : 1000,
        "numOfThread" : 5,
        "interval" : 1000,
        "target" : [{
            "pattern" : {
                "url" : "http://fess.codelibs.org/.*",
                "mimeType" : "text/html"
            },
            "properties" : {
                "title" : {
                    "text" : "title"
                },
                "body" : {
                    "text" : "body",
                    "trimSpaces" : true
                }
            }
        }]
    },
    "schedule" : {
        "cron" : "0 0 0 * * ?"
    }
}'

Aggregate a title/content from news.yahoo.com

$ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_river/yahoo_com/_meta' -d '{
  "type" : "web",
  "crawl" : {
    "index" : "webindex",
    "url" : ["http://news.yahoo.com/"],
    "includeFilter" : ["http://news.yahoo.com/.*"],
    "maxDepth" : 1,
    "maxAccessCount" : 10,
    "numOfThread" : 3,
    "interval" : 3000,
    "userAgent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko",
    "target" : [
      {
        "pattern" : {
          "url" : "http://news.yahoo.com/video/.*html",
          "mimeType" : "text/html"
        },
        "properties" : {
          "title" : {
            "text" : "title"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "pattern" : {
          "url" : "http://news.yahoo.com/.*html",
          "mimeType" : "text/html"
        },
        "properties" : {
          "title" : {
            "text" : "h1.headline"
          },
          "content" : {
            "text" : "section#mediacontentstory p"
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "schedule" : {
    "cron" : "0 0 * * * ?"
  }
}'

(if news.yahoo.com is updated, the above example needs to be updated.)

Others

BASIC/DIGEST/NTLM authentication

River Web supports BASIC/DIGEST/NTLM authentication. Set crawl.authentications object.

...
"numOfThread" : 5,
"interval" : 1000,
"authentications":[
  {
    "scope": {
      "scheme":"BASIC"
    },
    "credentials": {
      "username":"testuser",
      "password":"secret"
    }
  }],
"target" : [
...

The configuration is:

Property Type Description
crawl.authentications.scope.scheme string BASIC, DIGEST or NTLM
crawl.authentications.scope.host string (Optional)Target hostname.
crawl.authentications.scope.port int (Optional)Port number.
crawl.authentications.scope.realm string (Optional)Realm name.
crawl.authentications.credentials.username string Username.
crawl.authentications.credentials.password string Password.
crawl.authentications.credentials.workstation string (Optional)Workstation for NTLM.
crawl.authentications.credentials.domain string (Optional)Domain for NTLM.

For example, if you want to use an user in ActiveDirectory, the configuration is below:

"authentications":[
  {
    "scope": {
      "scheme":"NTLM"
    },
    "credentials": {
      "domain":"your.ad.domain",
      "username":"taro",
      "password":"himitsu"
    }
  }],

Use attachment type

River Web supports attachment type. For example, create a mapping with attachment type:

curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/web/test/_mapping?pretty" -d '{
  "test" : {
    "dynamic_templates" : [
    {
...
      "my_attachment" : {
        "match" : "my_attachment",
        "mapping" : {
          "type" : "attachment",
          "fields" : {
            "file" : { "index" : "no" },
            "title" : { "store" : "yes" },
            "date" : { "store" : "yes" },
            "author" : { "store" : "yes" },
            "keywords" : { "store" : "yes" },
            "content_type" : { "store" : "yes" },
            "content_length" : { "store" : "yes" }
          }
        }
      }
...

and then start your river. In "properties" object, when a value of "type" is "attachment", the crawled url is stored as base64-encoded data.

curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_river/test/_meta?pretty' -d '{
  "type" : "web",
  "crawl" : {
      "index" : "web",
      "url" : "http://...",
...
      "target" : [
...
        {
          "settings" : {
            "html" : false
          },
          "pattern" : {
            "url" : "http://.../.*"
          },
          "properties" : {
            "my_attachment" : {
              "type" : "attachment"
            }
          }
        }
      ]
...

Use Multibyte Characters

An example in Japanese environment is below. First, put some configuration file into conf directory of Elasticsearch.

$ cd $ES_HOME/conf    # ex. /etc/elasticsearch if using rpm package
$ sudo wget https://raw.github.com/codelibs/fess-server/master/src/tomcat/solr/core1/conf/mapping_ja.txt
$ sudo wget http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/trunk/solr/example/solr/collection1/conf/lang/stopwords_ja.txt 

and then create "webindex" index with analyzers for Japanese. (If you want to use uni-gram, remove cjk_bigram in filter)

$ curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/webindex" -d '
{
  "settings" : {
    "analysis" : {
      "analyzer" : {
        "default" : {
          "type" : "custom",
          "char_filter" : ["mappingJa"],
          "tokenizer" : "standard",
          "filter" : ["word_delimiter", "lowercase", "cjk_width", "cjk_bigram"]
        }
      },
      "char_filter" : {
        "mappingJa": {
          "type" : "mapping",
          "mappings_path" : "mapping_ja.txt"
        }
      },
      "filter" : {
        "stopJa" : {
          "type" : "stop",
          "stopwords_path" : "stopwords_ja.txt"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}'

Rewrite a property value by Script

River Web allows you to rewrite crawled data by Elasticsearch's scripting. The default script language is Groovy. In "properties" object, put "script" value to a property you want to rewrite.

...
        "properties" : {
...
          "flag" : {
            "text" : "body",
            "script" : "value.contains(\"Elasticsearch\") ? \"yes\" : \"no\""
          },

The above is, if a string value of body element in HTML contains "Elasticsearch", set "yes" to "flag" property.

Start a crawler immediately

To start a crawler immediately, remove "cron" property in a configuration to register a river. No "cron" property means that the crawler starts right now and the river configuration is removed automatically at the end of the crawling.

Use HTTP proxy

Put "proxy" property in "crawl" property.

curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_river/my_web/_meta' -d '{
    "type" : "web",
    "crawl" : {
...
        "proxy" : {
          "host" : "proxy.server.com",
          "port" : 8080
        },

Specify next crawled urls when crawling

To set "isChildUrl" property to true, the property values is used as next crawled urls.

"crawl" : {
...
    "target" : [
      {
...
        "properties" : {
          "childUrl" : {
            "value" : ["http://fess.codelibs.org/","http://fess.codelibs.org/ja/"],
            "isArray" : true,
            "isChildUrl" : true
          },

Intercept start/execute/finish/close actions

You can insert your script to Starting River(start)/Executing Crawler(execute)/Finished Crawler(finish)/Closed River(close). To insert scripts, put "script" property to "crawl" property.

{
  "crawl" : {
  ...
    "script":{
      "start":"your script...",
      "execute":"your script...",
      "finish":"your script...",
      "close":"your script..."
    },

Create Index For Crawling (1.0.0 - 1.1.0)

River Web Plugin needs 'robot' index for web crawling. Therefore, in version 1.0.0 - 1.1.0, you need to create it before starting the crawl. Type the following commands to create 'robot' index:

$ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/robot/'

As of 1.1.1, "robot" index is created automatically.

FAQ

What does "No scraping rule." mean?

In a river setting, "crawl.url" is starting urls to crawl a site, "crawl.includeFilter" filters urls whether are crawled or not, and "crawl.target.pattern.url" is a rule to store extracted web data. If a crawling url does not match "crawl.target.pattern.url", you would see the message. Therefore, it means the crawled url does not have an extraction rule.

How to extract an attribute of meta tag

For example, if you want to grab a content of description's meta tag, the configuration is below:

...
"target" : [
...
  "properties" : {
...
    "meta" : {
      "attr" : "meta[name=description]",
      "args" : [ "content" ]
    },

Incremental crawling dose not work?

"url" field needs to be "not_analyzed" in a mapping of your stored index. See Create Index To Store Crawl Data.

Where is crawled data stored?

crawled data are stored to "robot" index during cralwing, data extracted from them are stored to your index specified by a river setting, and then data in "robot" index are removed when the crawler is finished.