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Authors: A. Jesse Jiryu Davis and Guido van Rossum Project: Web crawler Requirements: * Python 3.4+ * aiohttp This is a web crawler. You give it a URL and it will crawl that website by following href links in the HTML pages. It doesn't do anything with the crawled pages, and the algorithm for finding links is intentionally naive -- those parts are easily modified, and not of particular interest (just use your favorite HTML parser instead of a regular expression). The point of the example is to show off how to write a reasonably complex HTTP client application using the asyncio module. This module, originally nicknamed Tulip, is new in the Python 3.4 standard library, based on PEP 3156. The example uses an HTTP client implementation for asyncio called "aiohttp", by Andrew Svetlov, Nikolay Kim, and others. Install the crawler's requirements like: python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt In order to be fast and efficient, the program opens multiple parallel connections to the server and reuses connections for multiple requests. On Jesse's Macbook Pro (2.3GHz Intel Core i7), with a fast network connection, it can visit all HTML pages of xkcd.com (over 1500 at the time of writing, and growing at a rate of three per week) in under 3 seconds. It can also scan all public pages on dropbox.com (about 2500 URLs) in under 50 seconds. Example command line (the -q reduces log output): python3 crawl.py -q xkcd.com Use --help to see all options. See also the files in "supplemental".