/// <summary>
/// Loads a previous state of the crawler. (does not load the webRequestFactory caches)
/// </summary>
/// <param name="fileName">The filename of the saved state.</param>
public void LoadState(string fileName)
{
if (fileName == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(fileName));
}
using (WebCrawlerStateMutex.Lock())
CurrentState = Serializer.ReadJsonData <WebCrawlerState>(fileName);
}
/// <summary>
/// Constructs a new WebCrawler instance. Doesn't start it yet.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="startURL">The URL to begin crawling at.</param>
/// <param name="prefixes">The valid prefixes of an URL to load (usually the page domain that you want to crawl through). ALL pages are valid if null.</param>
/// <param name="onNewPage">The function to execute whenever a valid page is found.</param>
/// <param name="onError">The function to execute whenever the response is invalid.</param>
/// <param name="webRequestFactory">A WebRequestFactory to construct the Requests with.</param>
/// <param name="threadCount">The number of worker-threads to use.</param>
public WebCrawler(string startURL, string[] prefixes, Func <string, WebCrawler, bool> onNewPage, Func <Exception, bool> onError, WebRequestFactory webRequestFactory, int threadCount = 1)
{
if (startURL == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(startURL));
}
if (prefixes == null)
{
prefixes = new string[] { "" }
}
;
else if (prefixes.Length < 1)
{
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(prefixes));
}
for (int i = 0; i < prefixes.Length; i++)
{
if (prefixes[i] == null)
{
prefixes[i] = "";
}
else
{
prefixes[i] = prefixes[i].Replace("http://", "").Replace("https://", "").Replace("www.", "");
}
}
if (onNewPage == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(onNewPage));
}
if (webRequestFactory == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(webRequestFactory));
}
if (threadCount < 1)
{
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(threadCount));
}
StartURL = startURL;
Prefixes = prefixes;
OnNewPage = onNewPage;
if (onError == null)
{
OnError = (e) => true;
}
else
{
OnError = onError;
}
WebRequestFactory = webRequestFactory;
using (WebCrawlerStateMutex.Lock())
{
CurrentState = new WebCrawlerState();
CurrentState.ToGo.Add(StartURL);
CurrentState.VisitedPages.Add(StartURL, true);
}
crawlerThreads = new Thread[threadCount];
}
