February/March 2025 Crawl
Introduced Docker containerization for the web crawler.
- Dockerization: The crawler is now fully containerized, including the addition of Dockerfiles for MariaDB and the complete isolation of containers from the local machine
- Improved Efficiency: Reduced wait times and added a retry policy for persistent services, enhancing crawl speed and reliability
- Enhanced Error Handling and Cleanup: More robust error handling implemented, along with automatic container shutdown and cleanup of volumes to ensure a cleaner environment after crawls