<code>http://localhost:8080/wamblee-crawler-kissweb</code>). The screen should show an
overview of the last time it ran (if it ran before) as well as a button to run the crawler
immediately. Also, the result of the last run can be viewed. The crawler will run
- automatically starting at around 19:00 (this is not exactly 19:00),
+ automatically starting after 19:00,
and will retry at 1 hour intervals in case
- of failure to retrieve programme information. </p>
+ of failure to retrieve programme information.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Since the crawler checks the status at
+ 1 hour intervals it can run for the first time anytime between 19:00 and 20:00. This is done
+ on purpose since it means that crawlers run by different people will not all start running
+ simultaneously and is thus more friendly to the KiSS servers. </p>
</section>
<section>
<title>Source distribution</title>
- <p> With the source code, build everything with <code>ant dist-lite</code>, then locate the
- binary distribution in <code>lib/wamblee/crawler/kiss/kiss-crawler-bin.zip</code>. Then
- proceed as for the binary distribution. </p>
+ <p> With the source code, build everything with maven2 as follows:</p>
+ <source>
+ mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true install
+ cd crawler
+ mvn package assembly:assembly
+ </source>
+ <p>
+ After this, locate the
+ binary distribution in the <code>target</code> subdirectory of the <code>crawler</code>
+ directory. Then
+ proceed as for the binary distribution.</p>
+
</section>
<section>