An Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Fast Web Crawler with Python

An Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Fast Web Crawler with Python

The Internet has been expanded constantly and greatly such that we are having vast number of web pages with dynamic changes. Especially, the fast development of wireless communication technology and the wide spread of various smart devices enable information being created at speed and changed anywhere, anytime. In this situation, web crawling, also known as web scraping, which is an organized, automated computer system for systematically navigating web pages residing on the web and for automatically searching and indexing information, has been inevitably used broadly in many fields today. This paper aims to implement a prototype web crawler with Python and to improve the execution speed using threads on multicore CPU. The results of the implementation confirmed the operation with crawling reference web sites and the performance improvement by evaluating the execution speed on the different thread configurations on multicore CPU.