Where has Googlebot crawled?

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Source code: googletrace Module: R050

# Where has Googlebot crawled?

fh = File.new "../data/ac_20110201"
gl = 0
counter = {}

fh.readlines.each do |lyne|

        # Quickly eliminate lines that don't include "Googlebot"

        next unless lyne.match("Googlebot")
        gl += 1

        # Collect the page that was trawled

        lyne =~ /"GET\s+([^\?\s]+)/

        # Generate a has of counters

        counter[$1] = 0 unless counter[$1]
        counter[$1] += 1

        end

print "Googlebot has trawled #{gl} pages\n"

# Sort the pages trawled by the number of times that each was read by Googlebot
# And if the numbers are the same for two pages, sort them alphabetically

pagestrawled = counter.keys.sort {|a, b| (n = counter[a] <=> counter[b]) == 0 ? a <=> b : n}

# And output the results

pagestrawled.each do |page|
        puts "#{counter[page]} - #{page}"
        end

__END__
92:februb grahamellis$ ruby googletrace
Googlebot has trawled 8378 pages
1 - /YaBBImages/wink.gif
1 - /accom/BA3.html
1 - /accom/embackup.php4
1 - /adhoc/adhoc_sql_query_engine.php
1 - /alternate/perl-training-course_index.html
1 - /alternate/uk_index.html
1 - /archives/2006/09/add_to_shopping.html
1 - /archives/2006/09/making_pages_cl.html
1 - /archives/2006/09/morgans_hill.html
1 - /archives/2006/10/courses_at_well.html
1 - /archives/2006/10/open.html
1 - /archives/2006/12/index.html
[etc]
15 - /demo/popup.php
17 - /melkshow/index.html
19 - /net/setcountry.php4
21 - /ask/index.php
21 - /demo/dropahead.php
24 - /net/quote.html
26 - /newsletter/
29 - /demo/mqc.php
37 - /demo/newsletter.php
41 - /demo/mqchunks.php
59 - /robots.txt
146 - /demo/mqclim.php
152 - /net/images.php4
167 - /solutions/mouth.html
221 - /resources/smap.php
255 - /demo/ifvswit.php
344 - /demo/picclim.php
1689 - /resources/ex.php4
92:februb grahamellis$

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