Hammock

A fast and nifty little crawler.

Prerequisites

You need to install the following two packages:

• curl / libcurl : Developer’s libraries for curl

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. Open up your terminal after installing the prerequisites and put these commands.

git clone https://github.com/sebinbabu/Hammock.git
cd Hammock
make
sudo make install

Usage

Use the hammock help command to get instructions.

Example usage

• hammock init : initializes the current working directory as a Hammock directory
• hammock depth 5 : sets the crawl depth of the crawler to 5 levels of recursion
• hammock add http:///www.google.com/ : adds Google's homepage to the crawl queue
• hammock add http://github.com/ : adds Github's homepage to the crawl queue
• hammock crawl : starts the crawler on the queue

Authors / Credits

• Sebin Babu - Initial work - Sebin Babu

License

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details