> my questions/doubts are inline > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Puneet, > > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Puneet Pandey <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > I have started using nutch recently. > > > As I understand nutch crawling is a cyclic process > > > inject->generate->fetch->parse->update > > > > Yes this is typically what you would execute. > > > > > 1. When does parse start when I use the "crawl" command line. Is it > > > after all the urls have been fetched in the segment? > > > > Depends on what settings you specify in nutch-site.xml, by default > > parsing is done as a separate process (after fetching) when using the > > crawl command. > > Suppose i submitted 10K urls in a segment for crawl. Does the parsing of > the content start as soon as the first URL is available (i.e. fetched) or > the parsing starts only after all 10K have been fetched. For my use case i > want parsing to start on the urls as soon as they are available w/o waiting > for fetch on others to complete.
don't use the crawl command, it has fetchign and parsing as separate jobs. You need to enable fetcher.parse to parse fetched files immediately. > > > > What if I want to the parse > > > the content as soon as it has been fetched? > > > > Change your settings in nutch-site.xml to override the defaults, then > > rebuild the project. > > > > > 2. Is it possible to run two fetches in parallel? Suppose I generate 2 > > > segments is it possible to run fetch on seg1 and seg2 in parallel? > > > > Yes this is possible, you would set the number of threads in your fetcher > > to run this task in parallel. > > > > I need to crawl 100K urls everyday. I have separate process which > > produces > > the urls for me, but it is a bit time taking process. I do not want to wait > for all the urls to be generated and then start the nutch crawl. What i > want is to start the nutch fetch process whenever I have received a batch > of urls (say 10K) available. Is it possible to inject the batch2 of 10K > urls while fetch for batch1 is still running? If yes, when will nutch pick > the next batch for crawl. This is only possible when you use the freegen command. Also, i'd not recommend running concurrent jobs in local mode. > > Also, I do not want to crawl any of the links from the fetched pages. The > only urls that need to be crawled are the ones generated by my process. How > do i ensure this. Is there any config setting with which we can disable > crawl of links present in fetched pages? Update the crawldb with additions disabled. > > > > 3. Can I limit the number of urls per host per segment in the generate > > > > step > > > > > itself? > > > > Yes, please check out nutch-default.xml for generator properties, I don't > > have the settings off my head but this is possible. > > > > > Puneet > > > > -- > > *Lewis*
