crawler-ninja-expired

Expired Domains Finder

This Crawler.Ninja plugin aims to find expired domains by crawling web sites.

Help & Forks welcomed ! or please wait ... work in progress !

How to install

$ npm install crawler-ninja --save
$ npm install expired-domains-plugin --save
$ npm install simple-proxies --save // if you want to use proxies

Crash course

var proxyLoader = require("simple-proxies/lib/proxyfileloader");
var crawler     = require("crawler-ninja");
var ep          = require("crawler-ninja-expired");

var proxyFile = "proxies.txt";

// Load proxies
var config = proxyLoader.config()
                        .setProxyFile(proxyFile)
                        .setCheckProxies(true)
                        .setRemoveInvalidProxies(true);

proxyLoader.loadProxyFile(config, function(error, proxyList) {
    if (error) {
      console.log(error);

    }
    else {
       crawl(proxyList);
    }

});


function crawl(proxyList){
    var c = new crawler.Crawler({
        externalLinks : true,
        images : false,
        scripts : false,
        links : false, //link tags used for css, canonical, ...
        followRedirect : true,
        proxyList : proxyList
    });

    var expired = new ep.Plugin(c);

    c.on("end", function() {

        var end = new Date();
        console.log("Well done Sir !, done in : " + (end - start));
        // the attributes expireds is a map with a key that match to the expired domains
        console.log(ed.expireds.keys())



    });

    var start = new Date();
    c.queue({url : "http://www.site.com"});
}

Using proxies is not mandatory but it is recommanded.Remove the attributes proxyList in the crawler constructor if you don't want to use proxies.

You can find all the crawler options on this page.

Rough todolist

• Check if the domain is available and/or status (pending, ... )
• Get Pagerank, TrustFlow and Citation Flow
• Get the number of linked domains, anchor text infos, ...
• Use Riak as default persistence layer

ChangeLog

0.1.0

• Basic implementation that logs domain that match to dns error