I am building a basic search engine using vector-space model and this is the crawler for returning 500 URLs and removes the SGML tags from the content. However, it is very slow (takes more than 30mins for retrieving the URLs only). How can I optimize the code? I have inserted wikipedia.org as an example starting URL.
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
use HTTP::Response;
use HTML::LinkExtor;
my $starting_url = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page';
my @urls = $starting_url;
my %alreadyvisited;
my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$browser->timeout(5);
my $url_count = 0;
while (@urls)
{
my $url = shift @urls;
next if $alreadyvisited{$url}; ## check if already visited
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
my $response = $browser->request($request);
if ($response->is_error())
{
print $response->status_line, "\n"; ## check for bad URL
}
my $contents = $response->content(); ## get contents from URL
push @c, $contents;
my @text = &RemoveSGMLtags(\@c);
#print "@text\n";
$alreadyvisited{$url} = 1; ## store URL in hash for future reference
$url_count++;
print "$url\n";
if ($url_count == 500) ## exit if number of crawled pages exceed limit
{
exit 0;
}
my ($page_parser) = HTML::LinkExtor->new(undef, $url);
$page_parser->parse($contents)->eof; ## parse page contents
my @links = $page_parser->links;
foreach my $link (@links)
{
$test = $$link[2];
$test =~ s!^https?://(?:www\.)?!!i;
$test =~ s!/.*!!;
$test =~ s/[\?\#\:].*//;
if ($test eq "en.wikipedia.org") ## check if URL belongs to unt domain
{
next if ($$link[2] =~ m/^mailto/);
next if ($$link[2] =~ m/s?html?|xml|asp|pl|css|jpg|gif|pdf|png|jpeg/);
push @urls, $$link[2];
}
}
sleep 1;
}
sub RemoveSGMLtags
{
my ($input) = @_;
my @INPUTFILEcontent = @$input;
my $j;my @raw_text;
for ($j=0; $j<$#INPUTFILEcontent; $j++)
{
my $INPUTFILEvalue = $INPUTFILEcontent[$j];
use HTML::Parse;
use HTML::FormatText;
my $plain_text = HTML::FormatText->new->format(parse_html($INPUTFILEvalue));
push @raw_text, ($plain_text);
}
return @raw_text;
}