This is a forum crawler that only crawls Index, Thread and Page Flipping URLs using some of methods described in IEEE paper (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6165295/). However it is not the exact same implementation of the paper.

Currently Supported Forum Softwares :

1. phpBB
2. Discuz
3. MyBB
4. FluxBB

Database Setup

1. Change database server credentials from Crawl_URL.java, Posts_Window.java and Question_Window.java
2. Then run below SQL statements in mysql client :

create database crawler; use crawler; create table records(id int,question varchar(5000),answer longblob,answer_url varchar(1000));