Methods of Web Forums Crawling

Student: Baranov Anton

Educational Programme: Software Engineering (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

Web forums appeared at the dawn of the Internet and have remained popular to this day. They have accumulated an enormous amount of information, which is placed in different parts of the Internet. Therefore, people need to spend many time for searching necessary data. In addition, there are several types of web forums engines. Each of them uses different approaches in formation of forum web pages and storing the data. The purpose of the work is to investigate the methods of Web-forums crawling. This work researches different approaches of data extraction from Web-forums, offers several ways to extract attributes of a forum post on a Web-forum. On the basis of the obtained knowledge, the method of automatic extraction of user posts from the discussion pages on Web-forums is implemented as a software tool, and the results of the work of this software tool are analyzed. Keywords: web-crawling, forum, information extraction

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