Rewrite PageCreationBot
Revision as of 11:39, 22 August 2007 by Brandon CS Sanders (talk | contribs)
What (summary)
- New page-building bot
- Still relies on Java/Tomcat to do crawling (for now)
- Carefully tested
- This is essentially a 1-1 rewrite of the scraping pieces of the bot in ruby instead of Java.
Why this is important
- We need to have control over the pages that our created on our site.
- The old bot was known to pollute the database; we need control over all the access points that could screw up our data.
- Gaining mastery over the code so that we can add new features easily.
DoneDone
- Creates news pages based on a template
- Monitoring and logging have been added (tests whether or not the bot succeeds)
- Hooked in to all the old points Bot was
- Checks robots.txt before spidering the website.