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"""
ResearchOwl Exhaustive Scraper
Core engine: discovers, expands, and evaluates sources recursively
"""
import asyncio
import re
import time
from typing import Optional
from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse, quote_plus
import aiohttp
import feedparser
import structlog
import trafilatura
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from duckduckgo_search import DDGS
from youtube_transcript_api import YouTubeTranscriptApi, NoTranscriptFound
from tenacity import retry, stop_after_attempt, wait_exponential
from src.config import settings
from src.db.database import ResearchDB
logger = structlog.get_logger()
HEADERS = {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ResearchOwl/1.0; +https://chemavx.xyz)",
"Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
"Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9,es;q=0.8",
}
# Domains to skip — not useful for research
BLACKLIST_DOMAINS = {
"facebook.com", "twitter.com", "x.com", "instagram.com", "tiktok.com",
"pinterest.com", "linkedin.com", "amazon.com", "ebay.com", "etsy.com",
"ads.google.com", "doubleclick.net", "googleadservices.com",
}
# Source type patterns
YOUTUBE_RE = re.compile(r"(?:youtube\.com/watch\?v=|youtu\.be/)([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11})")
PDF_RE = re.compile(r"\.pdf(\?|$)", re.IGNORECASE)
REDDIT_RE = re.compile(r"reddit\.com/(r/\w+/comments/\w+)")
WIKIPEDIA_RE = re.compile(r"wikipedia\.org/wiki/(.+)")
def detect_source_type(url: str) -> str:
if YOUTUBE_RE.search(url):
return "youtube"
if PDF_RE.search(url):
return "pdf"
if REDDIT_RE.search(url):
return "reddit"
if WIKIPEDIA_RE.search(url):
return "wikipedia"
if "arxiv.org" in url:
return "arxiv"
if any(d in url for d in ["rss", "feed", "atom"]):
return "rss"
return "web"
def is_blacklisted(url: str) -> bool:
try:
domain = urlparse(url).netloc.lower().replace("www.", "")
return any(bl in domain for bl in BLACKLIST_DOMAINS)
except Exception:
return True
def normalize_url(url: str) -> str:
parsed = urlparse(url)
clean = parsed._replace(fragment="", query="")
return clean.geturl().rstrip("/")
class ExhaustiveScraper:
"""
Recursive source discoverer and content extractor.
Keeps expanding until saturation or limits hit.
"""
def __init__(self, db: ResearchDB, session_id: int, topic: str,
progress_callback=None):
self.db = db
self.session_id = session_id
self.topic = topic
self.progress_callback = progress_callback
self.iteration = 0
self.total_sources = 0
self._stop = False
self._http: Optional[aiohttp.ClientSession] = None
async def stop(self):
self._stop = True
async def _get_http(self) -> aiohttp.ClientSession:
if not self._http or self._http.closed:
timeout = aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=settings.request_timeout)
self._http = aiohttp.ClientSession(headers=HEADERS, timeout=timeout)
return self._http
async def close(self):
if self._http and not self._http.closed:
await self._http.close()
# ─── Seed discovery ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
async def seed(self):
"""Initial broad search across multiple sources"""
logger.info("Seeding research", topic=self.topic)
tasks = [
self._seed_duckduckgo(),
self._seed_wikipedia(),
self._seed_reddit(),
self._seed_youtube(),
]
await asyncio.gather(*tasks, return_exceptions=True)
async def _seed_duckduckgo(self):
"""Multiple DDG queries — fresh DDGS() per query to avoid cascading ratelimits"""
queries = [
self.topic,
f"{self.topic} history facts",
f"{self.topic} evidence analysis",
f"{self.topic} official report",
f"{self.topic} investigation",
f"{self.topic} wikipedia",
f"{self.topic} documentary",
f"{self.topic} research study",
]
for query in queries:
if self._stop:
break
try:
# Fresh instance per query — a ratelimit on one won't poison the rest
with DDGS() as ddgs:
results = list(ddgs.text(query, max_results=settings.max_pages_per_search))
for r in results:
url = normalize_url(r.get("href", ""))
if url and not is_blacklisted(url):
await self.db.add_source(
self.session_id, url,
detect_source_type(url),
depth=0,
title=r.get("title")
)
logger.info("DDG query ok", query=query, results=len(results))
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("DDG query failed", query=query, error=str(e))
await asyncio.sleep(settings.request_delay * 2)
async def _seed_wikipedia(self):
"""Search Wikipedia API for correct article URLs.
Tries English first, falls back to Spanish if no results found."""
http = await self._get_http()
added = 0
for lang in ("en", "es"):
try:
api_url = (
f"https://{lang}.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch"
f"&search={quote_plus(self.topic)}&limit=10&format=json"
)
async with http.get(api_url) as resp:
data = await resp.json()
urls = data[3] if len(data) > 3 else []
for url in urls:
if url:
await self.db.add_source(self.session_id, url, "wikipedia", depth=0)
added += 1
logger.info("Wikipedia seed", lang=lang, found=len(urls))
if added > 0:
break # English results found — no need to try Spanish
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("Wikipedia API seed failed", lang=lang, error=str(e))
async def _seed_reddit(self):
"""Search Reddit — sequential to avoid rate limiting"""
try:
http = await self._get_http()
url = f"https://www.reddit.com/search.json?q={quote_plus(self.topic)}&sort=top&limit=15"
async with http.get(url, headers={**HEADERS, "User-Agent": "ResearchOwl/1.0"}) as resp:
if resp.status == 200:
data = await resp.json()
posts = data.get("data", {}).get("children", [])
for post in posts:
post_data = post.get("data", {})
permalink = post_data.get("permalink", "")
if permalink:
full_url = f"https://www.reddit.com{permalink}"
await self.db.add_source(
self.session_id, full_url, "reddit", depth=0,
title=post_data.get("title")
)
logger.info("Reddit seed", found=len(posts), status=resp.status)
else:
logger.warning("Reddit seed non-200", status=resp.status)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("Reddit seed failed", error=str(e))
async def _seed_youtube(self):
"""Search YouTube via DDG for video transcripts"""
try:
with DDGS() as ddgs:
results = list(ddgs.videos(
f"{self.topic} documentary explanation",
max_results=10
))
for r in results:
url = r.get("content", "")
if "youtube.com" in url or "youtu.be" in url:
await self.db.add_source(
self.session_id, url, "youtube", depth=0,
title=r.get("title")
)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("YouTube seed failed", error=str(e))
# ─── Main pipeline ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
async def run(self) -> dict:
"""
Main exhaustive loop:
1. Seed initial sources
2. Process batch → extract content + new URLs
3. Repeat until saturated or limits hit
"""
await self.seed()
while not self._stop:
self.iteration += 1
pending = await self.db.get_pending_sources(self.session_id, limit=20)
if not pending:
logger.info("No more pending sources — saturated", iteration=self.iteration)
break
if self.total_sources >= settings.max_sources:
logger.info("Max sources reached", total=self.total_sources)
break
logger.info("Processing batch", iteration=self.iteration, batch_size=len(pending))
# Reduced concurrency to 3 — avoids triggering Reddit/web rate limits
semaphore = asyncio.Semaphore(3)
tasks = [self._process_source(s, semaphore) for s in pending]
results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks, return_exceptions=True)
new_sources = sum(1 for r in results if r and isinstance(r, int) and r > 0)
self.total_sources += len(pending)
stats = await self.db.get_session_stats(self.session_id)
await self.db.update_session(
self.session_id,
iterations=self.iteration,
total_sources=self.total_sources
)
if self.progress_callback:
await self.progress_callback(
iteration=self.iteration,
total=self.total_sources,
new_this_round=new_sources,
stats=stats
)
# Saturation check: if we found very few new URLs, we're done
if new_sources < 3 and self.iteration > 2:
logger.info("Saturation detected", new_sources=new_sources)
break
await asyncio.sleep(settings.request_delay)
await self.close()
final_stats = await self.db.get_session_stats(self.session_id)
return final_stats
async def _process_source(self, source: dict, semaphore: asyncio.Semaphore) -> int:
"""Extract content from a source and discover new URLs. Returns count of new URLs found."""
async with semaphore:
source_type = source["source_type"]
url = source["url"]
source_id = source["id"]
try:
if source_type == "youtube":
content, title = await self._extract_youtube(url)
elif source_type == "wikipedia":
content, title, new_urls = await self._extract_wikipedia(url)
for new_url in (new_urls or []):
await self.db.add_source(
self.session_id, new_url, "wikipedia",
depth=source["depth"] + 1
)
await self._mark_scraped(source_id, content, title, url)
return len(new_urls or [])
elif source_type == "reddit":
content, title = await self._extract_reddit(url)
# Small delay between Reddit requests to avoid rate limiting
await asyncio.sleep(settings.request_delay)
elif source_type == "pdf":
content, title = await self._extract_pdf(url)
else:
content, title, new_urls = await self._extract_web(url, source["depth"])
for new_url in (new_urls or []):
await self.db.add_source(
self.session_id, new_url,
detect_source_type(new_url),
depth=source["depth"] + 1
)
await self._mark_scraped(source_id, content, title, url)
return len(new_urls or [])
await self._mark_scraped(source_id, content, title, url)
return 0
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("Source extraction failed", url=url, error=str(e))
await self.db.update_source(source_id, status="failed", error=str(e)[:200])
return 0
async def _mark_scraped(self, source_id: int, content: Optional[str],
title: Optional[str], url: str):
if not content:
logger.debug("No content returned", source_id=source_id, url=url[:60])
await self.db.update_source(source_id, status="skipped",
error="Content too short or empty")
return
if len(content) < settings.min_content_length:
logger.debug("Content too short", source_id=source_id,
length=len(content), url=url[:60])
await self.db.update_source(source_id, status="skipped",
error="Content too short or empty")
return
word_count = len(content.split())
await self.db.save_source_content(source_id, content)
await self.db.update_source(
source_id,
status="scraped",
title=title or url,
word_count=word_count,
scraped_at=time.time(),
quality_score=min(1.0, word_count / 1000)
)
logger.info("Source scraped", source_id=source_id, words=word_count, url=url[:60])
# ─── Extractors ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
async def _extract_web(self, url: str, depth: int) -> tuple[Optional[str], Optional[str], list[str]]:
"""Extract text + discover internal/external links"""
if is_blacklisted(url):
return None, None, []
http = await self._get_http()
async with http.get(url) as resp:
if resp.status != 200:
return None, None, []
html = await resp.text(errors="replace")
# Extract main content with trafilatura (much better than BS4 for articles)
content = trafilatura.extract(
html,
include_links=False,
include_tables=True,
favor_recall=True
)
# Extract title and new URLs with BS4
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml")
title = soup.title.string.strip() if soup.title else url
new_urls = []
if depth < settings.max_depth:
base = f"{urlparse(url).scheme}://{urlparse(url).netloc}"
for a in soup.find_all("a", href=True):
href = a["href"]
full_url = normalize_url(urljoin(base, href))
if (full_url.startswith("http") and
not is_blacklisted(full_url) and
not await self.db.source_exists(self.session_id, full_url)):
new_urls.append(full_url)
return content, title, new_urls[:30] # cap links per page
async def _extract_wikipedia(self, url: str) -> tuple[Optional[str], Optional[str], list[str]]:
"""Wikipedia: extract content + follow internal wiki links.
Works for both en.wikipedia.org and es.wikipedia.org."""
http = await self._get_http()
async with http.get(url) as resp:
if resp.status != 200:
logger.debug("Wikipedia non-200", status=resp.status, url=url[:60])
return None, None, []
html = await resp.text(errors="replace")
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml")
title_tag = soup.find("h1", {"id": "firstHeading"})
title = title_tag.text if title_tag else url
# Get clean content
content_div = soup.find("div", {"id": "mw-content-text"})
if not content_div:
return None, title, []
# Remove navboxes, references, etc.
for tag in content_div.find_all(["table", "sup", "style"]):
tag.decompose()
content = content_div.get_text(separator="\n", strip=True)
# Extract Wikipedia internal links using the URL's actual domain
parsed = urlparse(url)
wiki_base = f"{parsed.scheme}://{parsed.netloc}"
new_urls = []
for a in content_div.find_all("a", href=True):
href = a["href"]
if href.startswith("/wiki/") and ":" not in href:
full_url = normalize_url(f"{wiki_base}{href}")
if not await self.db.source_exists(self.session_id, full_url):
new_urls.append(full_url)
return content, title, new_urls[:20]
async def _extract_youtube(self, url: str) -> tuple[Optional[str], Optional[str]]:
"""Extract YouTube transcript"""
match = YOUTUBE_RE.search(url)
if not match:
return None, None
video_id = match.group(1)
try:
transcript_list = YouTubeTranscriptApi.get_transcript(
video_id, languages=["en", "es", "en-US", "en-GB"]
)
text = " ".join(t["text"] for t in transcript_list)
return text, f"YouTube: {video_id}"
except NoTranscriptFound:
return None, None
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("YouTube transcript failed", video_id=video_id, error=str(e))
return None, None
async def _extract_reddit(self, url: str) -> tuple[Optional[str], Optional[str]]:
"""Extract Reddit post + top comments via JSON API"""
json_url = url.rstrip("/") + ".json?limit=100&sort=top"
http = await self._get_http()
try:
async with http.get(
json_url,
headers={**HEADERS, "User-Agent": "ResearchOwl/1.0"}
) as resp:
if resp.status != 200:
logger.debug("Reddit non-200", status=resp.status, url=url[:60])
return None, None
data = await resp.json()
post = data[0]["data"]["children"][0]["data"]
title = post.get("title", "")
selftext = post.get("selftext", "")
comments = []
if len(data) > 1:
for child in data[1]["data"]["children"][:50]:
body = child.get("data", {}).get("body", "")
if body and body != "[deleted]" and len(body) > 50:
score = child.get("data", {}).get("score", 0)
if score > 5: # only upvoted comments
comments.append(body)
content = f"# {title}\n\n{selftext}\n\n## Top Comments\n\n" + "\n\n---\n\n".join(comments)
return content, title
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("Reddit extraction failed", url=url, error=str(e))
return None, None
async def _extract_pdf(self, url: str) -> tuple[Optional[str], Optional[str]]:
"""Download and extract PDF text"""
import pdfplumber
import tempfile
import os
http = await self._get_http()
try:
async with http.get(url) as resp:
if resp.status != 200:
return None, None
content_length = int(resp.headers.get("content-length", 0))
if content_length > 50 * 1024 * 1024: # skip PDFs > 50MB
return None, None
pdf_bytes = await resp.read()
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".pdf", delete=False) as f:
f.write(pdf_bytes)
tmp_path = f.name
try:
with pdfplumber.open(tmp_path) as pdf:
pages = [p.extract_text() or "" for p in pdf.pages[:50]] # max 50 pages
text = "\n\n".join(pages)
return text, url.split("/")[-1]
finally:
os.unlink(tmp_path)
except Exception as e:
logger.warning("PDF extraction failed", url=url, error=str(e))
return None, None