ReqCrawl

Req plugins to support common crawling functions

Installation

def deps do
  [
    {:req_crawl, "~> 0.2.0"}
    {:saxy, "~> 1.5"} # Optionally to use `ReqCrawl.Sitemap`
  ]
end

Plugins

ReqCrawl.Robots

A Req plugin to parse robots.txt files

You can attach this plugin to any %Req.Request you use for a crawler and it will only run against URLs with a path of /robots.txt.

It outputs a map with the following fields:

• :errors - A list of any errors encountered during parsing
• :sitemaps - A list of the sitemaps
• :rules - A map of the rules with User-Agents as the keys and a map with the following values as the fields:
  • :allow - A list of allowed paths
  • :disallow - A list of the disallowed paths

ReqCrawl.Sitemap

Gathers all URLs from a Sitemap or SitemapIndex according to the specification described at https://sitemaps.org/protocol.html

Supports the following formats:

• .xml (for sitemap and sitemapindex)
• .txt (for sitemap)

Outputs a 2-Tuple of {type, urls} where type is one of :sitemap or :sitemapindex and urls is a list of URL strings extracted from the body.

Output is stored in the ReqResponse in the private field under the :crawl_sitemap key