concurrent-web-scraper-and-sitemap-generator

README

Concurrent Web Scraper and Sitemap Generator

This Go script is a concurrent web scraper and sitemap generator. It takes a website URL as input and concurrently scrapes the website to generate a sitemap. The program utilizes Go's concurrency features, such as goroutines and channels, to efficiently crawl and process multiple pages simultaneously.

Features

• Concurrent web scraping using goroutines and channels
• Recursive crawling to discover and process all pages of the website
• URL normalization and duplicate URL filtering
• Respect for robots.txt rules
• Generating a structured sitemap in XML format
• Error handling and reporting
• Command-line interface for easy execution

Prerequisites

• Go programming language (version 1.16 or higher)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/jayinmt/concurrent-web-scraper-and-sitemap-generator.git
   

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd concurrent-web-scraper
   

3. Build the executable:

   go build sitemap_generator.go
   

Usage

To generate a sitemap for a website, run the following command:

./sitemap_generator -website "https://example.com"

Replace "https://example.com" with the URL of the website you want to scrape and generate a sitemap for.

The generated sitemap will be printed to the console in XML format.

Example

./sitemap_generator -website "https://example.com"

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/</loc>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/about</loc>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/contact</loc>
  </url>
  ...
</urlset>

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Acknowledgements

• The script utilizes the robotstxt package by temoto: https://github.com/temoto/robotstxt