org.terrier.services.websitesearch

Interface CrawlerAPI

All Known Implementing Classes:

CrawlerProcess

public interface CrawlerAPI

Interface defining a web crawler

Since:

4.0

Author:

Richard McCreadie

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	indexWebsite(UpdatableIndex index, int linkdepth, String url) Crawls a website and adds the documents to the specified index

Method Detail

indexWebsite

int indexWebsite(UpdatableIndex index,
                 int linkdepth,
                 String url)

Crawls a website and adds the documents to the specified index

Parameters:

index - - an UpdatableIndex

linkdepth - - number of links to follow

url - - hostname

Returns:

0