Larbin

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Larbin - Web crawler

Larbin is an HTTP Web crawler that can fetch more than 5 million pages a day on a standard PC (pentium II 300, 128 Mo SDRAM and a 10 Mbit ethernet card, with a good network). Larbin uses standard libraries, plus adns. The program is multithreaded but prefers using select instead of a lot of threads (for efficiency purposes). The advantage of Larbin over wget or ht://dig is that it is much faster (because it opens a lot of connexions at a time) and very easy to customize).

Common uses include: a crawler for a standard search engine, a crawler for a specialized search engine (xml, images, mp3...), and to provide statistics about servers or page contents).

Obtaining

Web page http://larbin.sourceforge.net/index-eng.html
Source tarball http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/larbin/larbin-2.6.3.tar.gz?download
Version 2.6.3 (stable) released on 2002-07-16

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User guide included

Support contacts

Help List	<sebastien@ailleret.com>
Developer List	<sebastien@ailleret.com>
Bug List	<sebastien@ailleret.com>

Project contacts

Maintainers	Sebastien Ailleret <sebastien@ailleret.com>
Developers	Sebastien Ailleret <sebastien@ailleret.com> see CREDITS file in the distribution for the full listing

Related information

Interfaces	web
Source languages	C++
Related programs	Wget, ht://Dig

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-04-04
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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