looks like a bug with the way the robots parser deals with URLs like this. Please open a JIRA
On 2 July 2012 13:00, arijit <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Since learning that nutch will be unable to crawl the javascript > function calls in href, I started looking for other alternatives. I decided > to crawl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_India. > I first tried injecting this URL and follow the step-by-step approach > till fetcher - when I realized, nutch did not fetch anything from this > website. I tried looking into logs/hadoop.log and found the following 3 > lines - which I believe could be saying that nutch is unable to parse the > robots.txt in the website and ttherefore, fetcher stopped? > > 2012-07-02 16:41:07,452 WARN api.RobotRulesParser - error parsing > robots rules- can't decode path: /wiki/Wikipedia%3Mediation_Committee/ > 2012-07-02 16:41:07,452 WARN api.RobotRulesParser - error parsing > robots rules- can't decode path: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3Mediation_Committee/ > 2012-07-02 16:41:07,452 WARN api.RobotRulesParser - error parsing > robots rules- can't decode path: /wiki/Wikipedia%3Mediation_Cabal/Cases/ > > I tried checking the URL using parsechecker and no issues there! I > think it means that the robots.txt is malformed for this website, which is > preventing fetcher from fetching anything. Is there a way to get around > this problem, as parsechecker seems to go on its merry way parsing. > > Just so that my "novice" logic does not come in the way of finding > what is going wrong, I have attached my hadoop.log - which contains both > the fetcher as well as parsechecker logs. > > Any help on this, is much appreciated. > -Arijit > -- * *Open Source Solutions for Text Engineering http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/ http://www.digitalpebble.com http://twitter.com/digitalpebble

