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Copilot AI commented Dec 10, 2025

Adds a web crawler for automated content discovery and knowledge base population, completing the Dark RAG pipeline.

Implementation

  • DarkCrawler: Configurable crawler with rate limiting, robots.txt compliance, depth/page limits, and timeout handling
  • HTMLContentExtractor: Extracts text, titles, and links from HTML while filtering scripts/styles
  • URL Filtering: Domain-based (create_domain_filter) and regex pattern-based (create_pattern_filter) filters with composability
  • Knowledge Base Integration: crawl_and_store() method for direct storage with content length filtering

Usage

from dark_crawler import DarkCrawler, create_domain_filter
from dark_rag import DarkKnowledgeBase, DarkRAG

# Crawl and populate knowledge base
crawler = DarkCrawler(delay=2.0, max_depth=2, max_pages=100)
kb = DarkKnowledgeBase()

domain_filter = create_domain_filter(['docs.example.com'])
stats = crawler.crawl_and_store(
    seed_urls=['https://docs.example.com'],
    knowledge_base=kb,
    filter_func=domain_filter
)

# Query with augmented context
dark_rag = DarkRAG(knowledge_base=kb)
result = dark_rag.generate("How do I configure the API?")

Testing

  • 10 test cases covering extraction, filtering, integration, and edge cases
  • No network dependencies (uses mocks)
  • CodeQL scan: 0 vulnerabilities

Documentation

  • DARK_CRAWLER.md: Architecture, usage patterns, best practices
  • crawler_examples.py: 8 runnable examples demonstrating configurations
  • CRAWLER_IMPLEMENTATION_SUMMARY.md: Design decisions and implementation details
Original prompt

This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Dark Web Crawler</issue_title>
<issue_description></issue_description>

<agent_instructions>An optional prompt.</agent_instructions>

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Copilot AI and others added 4 commits December 10, 2025 03:59
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Co-authored-by: ewdlop <25368970+ewdlop@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: ewdlop <25368970+ewdlop@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: ewdlop <25368970+ewdlop@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Add implementation for dark web crawler Implement Dark Web Crawler with knowledge base integration Dec 10, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from ewdlop December 10, 2025 04:06
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