crawler now scrapes in parallel threads

fedicrawler.py

@@ -1,53 +1,77 @@
 #!/bin/env python3
-# fediscraper v1
+# fediscraper v2
 
-import json, requests,threading
+import json, requests
+from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool as ThreadPool 
 
 start_url = 'https://post.lurk.org'
 activity = ''
-peers_info = '/api/v1/instance/peers'
-instance_info = '/api/v1/instance'
+
+pool = ThreadPool(128)
+
 
 def get_peers(instance):
-    r = requests.get('https://'+instance+'/api/v1/instance/peers', timeout=10)
+    try:
+        r = requests.get('https://'+instance+'/api/v1/instance/peers', timeout=1)
         if r.status_code == 200:
             peers = r.json()
             print(instance, 'peers with', len(peers))
-        return(peers)
+            return peers
+        
         else:
             print('fail: got {} on {}'.format(r.status_code, instance))
+            return
+    except Exception as e:
+        print('fail on',instance, e)
+        # print(e)
+        return
 
-instances = {}
-r = requests.get(start_url+peers_info)
-if r. status_code == 200:
-    print('200 for '+start_url)
-    peers = r.json()
-    print('{} has {} peers'.format(start_url, len(peers)))
-    for count, peer in enumerate(peers):
-            #instances.add(peer)
-            try:
-                peer_list = get_peers(peer)
-                if peer_list:
-                    for i in peer_list:
-                        if i not in instances:
+def get_instance_info(instance):
+    instance_info = '/api/v1/instance'
+    print('getting info for', instance)
     try:
-                                    ii = requests.get('https://'+i+instance_info, timeout=10)
+        ii = requests.get('https://'+instance+instance_info, timeout=10)
         info = ii.json()
+        print('info request for {} succeeded'.format(instance))
     except Exception as e:
         print('failed to query instance info')
-                                    print(e)
-                                    info = 'error'
-                                    pass
-                                instances[i] = info
-                                print('added {}, n={}'.format(i,len(instances)))
+        # print(e)
+        info = {'error': 'error'}
+    return info
+
+
+instances = set([])
+r = requests.get(start_url+peers_info)
+if r. status_code == 200:
+    start_peers = pool.map(get_peers, r.json()) 
+    for i in start_peers:
+        if not i:
+            start_peers.remove(i)
         else:
-                    print(i.status_code, 'on', peer)
-            except Exception as e:
-                print('failure for', peer)
-                # instances[peer] = {'error':e}
-                print(e)
+            pool.map(instances.add, i)
+
+    network = pool.map(get_peers, instances)
+    for peer_list in network:
+        if peer_list:
+            for instance in peer_list:
+                instances.add(instance)
+
+
+instance_info = pool.map(get_instance_info, instances)
+
+scrape = {}
+
+instances_list = list(instances)
+
+for count, value in enumerate(instances_list):
+    scrape[value] = instance_info[count]
+
+print('found {} instances'.format(len(scrape)))
+
+pool.close()
+pool.join()
+
 
-#text = list(filter(None.__ne__, instances)) 
 
 with open('instance_scrape.json','w') as f:
     f.write(json.dumps(instances,indent=4))