org.htmlparser.parserapplications
Class SiteCapturer

java.lang.Object
  org.htmlparser.parserapplications.SiteCapturer

Direct Known Subclasses:

WikiCapturer

public class SiteCapturer
extends Object

Save a web site locally. Illustrative program to save a web site contents locally. It was created to demonstrate URL rewriting in it's simplest form. It uses customized tags in the NodeFactory to alter the URLs. This program has a number of limitations:

• it doesn't capture forms, this would involve too many assumptions
• it doesn't capture script references, so funky onMouseOver and other non-static content will not be faithfully reproduced
• it doesn't handle style sheets
• it doesn't dig into attributes that might reference resources, so for example, background images won't necessarily be captured
• worst of all, it gets confused when a URL both has content and is the prefix for other content, i.e. http://whatever.com/top and http://whatever.com/top/sub.html both yield content, since this cannot be faithfully replicated to a static directory structure (this happens a lot with servlet based sites)

Field Summary

protected boolean	mCaptureResources If true, save resources locally too, otherwise, leave resource links pointing to original page.
protected HashSet	mCopied The set of resources already copied.
protected NodeFilter	mFilter The filter to apply to the nodes retrieved.
protected HashSet	mFinished The set of pages already captured.
protected ArrayList	mImages The list of resources to copy.
protected ArrayList	mPages The list of pages to capture.
protected Parser	mParser The parser to use for processing.
protected String	mSource The web site to capture.
protected String	mTarget The local directory to capture to.
protected int	TRANSFER_SIZE Copy buffer size.

Constructor Summary

SiteCapturer()
Create a web site capturer.

Method Summary

void	capture() Perform the capture.
protected void	copy() Copy a resource (image) locally.
protected String	decode(String raw) Unescape a URL to form a file name.
boolean	getCaptureResources() Getter for property captureResources.
NodeFilter	getFilter() Getter for property filter.
String	getSource() Getter for property source.
String	getTarget() Getter for property target.
protected boolean	isHtml(String link) Returns true if the link contains text/html content.
protected boolean	isToBeCaptured(String link) Returns true if the link is one we are interested in.
static void	main(String[] args) Mainline to capture a web site locally.
protected String	makeLocalLink(String link, String current) Converts a link to local.
protected void	process(NodeFilter filter) Process a single page.
void	setCaptureResources(boolean capture) Setter for property captureResources.
void	setFilter(NodeFilter filter) Setter for property filter.
void	setSource(String source) Setter for property source.
void	setTarget(String target) Setter for property target.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

mSource

protected String mSource

The web site to capture. This is used as the base URL in deciding whether to adjust a link and whether to capture a page or not.

mTarget

protected String mTarget

The local directory to capture to. This is used as a base prefix for files saved locally.

mPages

protected ArrayList mPages

The list of pages to capture. Links are added to this list as they are discovered, and removed in sequential order (FIFO queue) leading to a breadth first traversal of the web site space.

mFinished

protected HashSet mFinished

The set of pages already captured. Used to avoid repeated acquisition of the same page.

mImages

protected ArrayList mImages

The list of resources to copy. Images and other resources are added to this list as they are discovered.

mCopied

protected HashSet mCopied

The set of resources already copied. Used to avoid repeated acquisition of the same images and other resources.

mParser

protected Parser mParser

The parser to use for processing.

mCaptureResources

protected boolean mCaptureResources

If true, save resources locally too, otherwise, leave resource links pointing to original page.

mFilter

protected NodeFilter mFilter

The filter to apply to the nodes retrieved.

TRANSFER_SIZE

protected final int TRANSFER_SIZE

Copy buffer size. Resources are moved to disk in chunks this size or less.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

SiteCapturer

public SiteCapturer()

Create a web site capturer.

Method Detail

getSource

public String getSource()

Getter for property source.

Returns:

Value of property source.

setSource

public void setSource(String source)

Setter for property source. This is the base URL to capture. URL's that don't start with this prefix are ignored (left as is), while the ones with this URL as a base are re-homed to the local target.

Parameters:

source - New value of property source.

getTarget

public String getTarget()

Getter for property target.

Returns:

Value of property target.

setTarget

public void setTarget(String target)

Setter for property target. This is the local directory under which to save the site's pages.

Parameters:

target - New value of property target.

getCaptureResources

public boolean getCaptureResources()

Getter for property captureResources. If true, the images and other resources referenced by the site and within the base URL tree are also copied locally to the target directory. If false, the image links are left 'as is', still refering to the original site.

Returns:

Value of property captureResources.

setCaptureResources

public void setCaptureResources(boolean capture)

Setter for property captureResources.

Parameters:

capture - New value of property captureResources.

getFilter

public NodeFilter getFilter()

Getter for property filter.

Returns:

Value of property filter.

setFilter

public void setFilter(NodeFilter filter)

Setter for property filter.

Parameters:

filter - New value of property filter.

isToBeCaptured

protected boolean isToBeCaptured(String link)

Returns true if the link is one we are interested in.

Parameters:

link - The link to be checked.

Returns:

true if the link has the source URL as a prefix and doesn't contain '?' or '#'; the former because we won't be able to handle server side queries in the static target directory structure and the latter because presumably the full page with that reference has already been captured previously. This performs a case insensitive comparison, which is cheating really, but it's cheap.

isHtml

protected boolean isHtml(String link)
                  throws ParserException

Returns true if the link contains text/html content.

Parameters:

link - The URL to check for content type.

Returns:

true if the HTTP header indicates the type is "text/html".

Throws:

ParserException - If the supplied URL can't be read from.

makeLocalLink

protected String makeLocalLink(String link,
                               String current)

Converts a link to local. A relative link can be used to construct both a URL and a file name. Basically, the operation is to strip off the base url, if any, and then prepend as many dot-dots as necessary to make it relative to the current page. A bit of a kludge handles the root page specially by calling it index.html, even though that probably isn't it's real file name. This isn't pretty, but it works for me.

Parameters:

link - The link to make relative.

current - The current page URL, or empty if it's an absolute URL that needs to be converted.

Returns:

The URL relative to the current page.

decode

protected String decode(String raw)

Unescape a URL to form a file name. Very crude.

Parameters:

raw - The escaped URI.

Returns:

The native URI.

copy

protected void copy()

Copy a resource (image) locally. Removes one element from the 'to be copied' list and saves the resource it points to locally as a file.

process

protected void process(NodeFilter filter)
                throws ParserException

Process a single page.

Parameters:

filter - The filter to apply to the collected nodes.

Throws:

ParserException - If a parse error occurs.

capture

public void capture()

Perform the capture.

main

public static void main(String[] args)
                 throws MalformedURLException,
                        IOException

Mainline to capture a web site locally.

Parameters:

args - The command line arguments. There are three arguments the web site to capture, the local directory to save it to, and a flag (true or false) to indicate whether resources such as images and video are to be captured as well. These are requested via dialog boxes if not supplied.

Throws:

MalformedURLException - If the supplied URL is invalid.

IOException - If an error occurs reading the page or resources.