You unshift links into the queue after pushing them there several lines above. That's weird, but does not matter as it never crawls to the same url for two times. My original code did everything you need about links and queueing, btw. Next, I can't debug mirroring wired.com, sorry :) I pay for traffic. Try to watch the growing queue of pending visits and catch the moment your script finishes. And last. Your arrays won't get too large anytime soon. Really. Your computer will be able to handle an array of million of links, I suppose, without much problems. I'd suggest filtering visited links before adding new ones to the queue and not before crawling as the first possible optimization.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Cutting Out Previously Visited Web Pages in A Web Spider by kappa
in thread Cutting Out Previously Visited Web Pages in A Web Spider by mkurtis

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