Burrow The Burrows. A gopher crawler.
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## Burrow-The-Burrows
A Gopher burrower in a shell script. By using `burrow` and a bit of
plumbing you can get all the links in a Gopher MENU, recursively visit
all the available subdirs, and create a directed graph of the visited
selectors.
`burrow` takes as input a gopher identifier, as generated by
`url_to_id`, which is considered a gophermap, and provides on stdout the
list of menu selectors found in that document. `burrow` will also dump
on stderr the list of all the edges (to any kind of selector) found in
that page, in the format:
src_SHA256 dst_SHA256
where `src_SHA256` is the SHA256 of the source selector (the current
document), while `dst_SHA256` is the destination selector (the pointed
document).
To start a crawl, one can do something like:
```
$ ./url_to_id gopher://your.gopher.url/ > ids
$ tail -f ids | parallel -j2 './burrow {}' 2>> graph.txt | tee -a ids >/dev/null &
```
Notice that `burrow` will create a certain number of folders in the
current directory, used to keep track of the selectors that have been
already retrieved.