Python Web Scraping - Second Edition

Multiprocessing crawler

To improve the performance further, the threaded example can be extended to support multiple processes. Currently, the crawl queue is held in local memory, which means other processes cannot contribute to the same crawl. To address this, the crawl queue will be transferred to Redis. Storing the queue independently means that even crawlers on separate servers could collaborate on the same crawl.

For more robust queuing, a dedicated distributed task tool, such as Celery, should be considered; however, Redis will be reused here to minimize the number of technologies and dependencies introduced. Here is an implementation of the new Redis-backed queue:

# Based loosely on the Redis Cookbook FIFO Queue:# http://www.rediscookbook.org/implement_a_fifo_queue.html ...