Distributed Web Crawler System for Parallel Data Collection

Build a distributed web crawler that distributes URL crawling tasks among multiple worker nodes to improve crawling speed, scalability, and fault tolerance while managing duplicate content and synchronization.

Study web crawling architecture.

Design master-worker distributed model.

Implement URL queue management system.

Develop parallel crawling agents.

Implement duplicate URL detection.

Add content parsing and storage module.

Ensure synchronization of crawled URLs.

Implement fault tolerance for worker failure.

Measure crawling throughput.

Deploy across multiple virtual machines.

Optimize load distribution strategy.

Implement rate limiting mechanism.

Add logging and monitoring.

Conduct performance testing.

Document results and architecture design.