Manual: Unobtanium Overview

Components

Unobtanium is made up of:

unobtanium (lib-unobtanium)
Main application library that implements most data-structures and database logic.
criterium
Query framework for matching Data in memory and in the DB against criteria.
API Documentation
unobtanium-crawler
Web Crawling and summarizing application of Unobtanium.
Manual
unobtanium-viewer
Web frontend for querying an Unobtanium summary database.
Manual
crawler database
Database schema optimized for crawling.
Schema Documentation
summary database
Database schema optimized for querying/searching.
Schema Documentation

Data Pipeline

The main Unobtanium data pipeline consists of three steps:

  1. Crawling (Web to crawler database)
  2. Summarizing (crawler database to summary database)
  3. Querying/Searching (summary database to curious Creature) (Query Syntax)

Each step in independent of the previous, so no huge setup is needed to get Unobtanium working.

Crawling and summarizing are decoupled to make iterating on code and configuration easier, as summarizing is a quite complex step.