Lab 3 [Search Engine] FAQ

Whenever I run the search engine I get a "MiniHTTPD: bind failed" error message.

This means that someone else is already their own search engine at the same address that you are trying to use. Change the port from 8888 to some other number and try again.

How should I use my webcrawler in this lab?

Your webcrawler should be used as a way to generate a database that you will search from by generating words.txt and url.txt. When you start up your search engine, you should look for these files and use them to populate the data structures that your search engine will use. Note that your search engine should not call your webcrawler directly; it should only use the files that it generates.