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Author: Tamas Szirtesi <tamas-gabor.szirtesi@t-systems.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 9 14:19:20 2023 +0200

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+# Help Center Spider
+## About
+This is a spider tool with which you can visit all links on https://docs.otc.t-systems.com to find urls that are not correct.
+
+## Requirements
+After you cloned the repository you need to prepare an environment to run the tool. You can easily do this with 
+python virtual environment:
+
+```
+$ cd <local_folder>/
+$ python -m venv venv/
+$ python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+## Configuration
+In _config.json_ you can define a couple items:
+
+- _watchdog_file_: if you run the tool in the background and want to stop it properly (not using `kill`), 
+just send an exit message into the watchdog file: `echo exit > watchdog.fifo`
+- _timer_runtime_: maximum runtime limit in seconds
+- _log_dir_: logging folder
+- _logging_interval_: frequency of dumping log files
+- _workers_: number of workers (background processes) you want to run. If you set to 0 it will count from the number of cores (_number_of_cores_ - 1)
+- _starting_point_: base url where to start
+
+## How to run
+There are two ways to do it
+
+### In foreground
+`$ python main.py`
+
+### In background
+`$ nohup python main.py > log/hc_spider.log 2> log/hc_spider.err <&- &`
+
+In case you running the tool in background you can stop the execution with `$ echo exit > <watchdog_file>`
+