OD-Database

Suggestions/concerns/PRs are welcome

Installation

Assuming you have Python 3 and git installed:

git clone https://github.com/simon987/od-database
cd od-database
sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Create /config.py and fill out the parameters. Sample config:

# Leave default values for no CAPTCHAs
CAPTCHA_LOGIN = False
CAPTCHA_SUBMIT = False
CAPTCHA_SITE_KEY = ""
CAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY = ""

# Flask secret key for sessions
FLASK_SECRET = ""
RESULTS_PER_PAGE = (25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000)
# Headers for http crawler
HEADERS = {}
# Number of crawler instances (one per task)
CRAWL_SERVER_PROCESSES = 3
# Number of threads per crawler instance
CRAWL_SERVER_THREADS = 20
# Allow ftp websites in /submit
SUBMIT_FTP = False
# Allow http(s) websites in /submit
SUBMIT_HTTP = True

SERVER_URL = "http://localhost/api"
API_TOKEN = "5817926d-f2f9-4422-a411-a98f1bfe4b6c"

Running the crawl server

cd od-database
export PYTHONPATH=$(pwd)
cd crawl_server
python3 run.py

Running the web server (development)

cd od-database
python3 app.py

Running the web server with nginx (production)

• Install dependencies:

sudo apt install build-essential python-dev
sudo pip install uwsgi

• Adjust the path in od-database.ini
• Configure nginx (on Debian 9: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default):

server {
        ...

        include uwsgi_params;
        location / {
                uwsgi_pass 127.0.0.1:3031;
        }
        
        ...
}

• Start uwsgi:

uwsgi od-database.ini