OD-Database is a web-crawling project that aims to index a very large number of file links and their basic metadata from open directories (misconfigured Apache/Nginx/FTP servers, or more often, mirrors of various public services).

Each crawler instance fetches tasks from the central server and pushes the result once completed. A single instance can crawl hundreds of websites at the same time (Both FTP and HTTP(S)) and the central server is capable of ingesting thousands of new documents per second.

The data is indexed into elasticsearch and made available via the web frontend (Currently hosted at https://od-db.the-eye.eu/). There is currently ~1.93 billion files indexed (total of about 300Gb of raw data). The raw data is made available as a CSV file here.

Contributing

Suggestions/concerns/PRs are welcome

Installation

Assuming you have Python 3 and git installed:

sudo apt install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
git clone https://github.com/simon987/od-database
cd od-database
git submodule update --init --recursive
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_SEARCH = False
CAPTCHA_EVERY = 10

# Flask secret key for sessions
FLASK_SECRET = ""
RESULTS_PER_PAGE = (25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000)
# Allow ftp websites in /submit
SUBMIT_FTP = False
# Allow http(s) websites in /submit
SUBMIT_HTTP = True

# Number of re-crawl tasks to keep in the queue
RECRAWL_POOL_SIZE = 10000
# task_tracker API url
TT_API = "http://localhost:3010"
# task_tracker crawl project id
TT_CRAWL_PROJECT = 3
# task_tracker indexing project id
TT_INDEX_PROJECT = 9
# Number of threads to use for ES indexing
INDEXER_THREADS = 4

# ws_bucket API url
WSB_API = "http://localhost:3020"
# ws_bucket secret
WSB_SECRET = "default_secret"
# ws_bucket data directory
WSB_PATH = "/mnt/data/github.com/simon987/ws_bucket/data"
# od-database PostgreSQL connection string
DB_CONN_STR = "dbname=od-database user=od-database password=xxx"

Running the crawl server

The python crawler that was a part of this project is discontinued, the go implementation is currently in use.

Running the web server (debug)

cd od-database
python3 app.py

Running the web server with Nginx (production)

Install dependencies:

sudo apt install build-essential python-dev redis-server uwsgi-plugin-python3

Configure nginx (on Debian 9: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default):

server {
        ...

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

Configure Elasticsearch

PUT _template/default
{
  "index_patterns": ["*"],
  "order": -1,
  "settings": {
    "number_of_shards": "50",
    "number_of_replicas": "0",
    "codec" : "best_compression",
    "routing_partition_size" : 5
  }
}

Start uwsgi:

uwsgi od-database.ini