thredds_crawler revial

[ocefpaf]

To do list (kind of in order of priority):

• fix the failing tests.
• write proper docs, based on the examples in the README and API docs.
• enable pre-commits and fix remaining lints.
• triage on old issues and PRs.
• mint new a release
• add a note about how this compare/complements/could use siphon

[ocefpaf]

I decided to take a crack at the last one. See https://nbviewer.org/gist/ocefpaf/374ce5c8131343e789e5261d1fe7d83c

I'm not an expert on either packages (siphon or thredds_crawler), but it seems that one can do everything described in the thredds_crawler's README (the only docs we have), with siphon. Siphon is also faster and looks in a better shape.

[muhd360]

@ocefpaf if u can assign a few tasks ,would like to take a crack at them- any specific prs that may not be a ton of work??

[ocefpaf]

@muhd360 if you are interested in GSoC'25 I recommend you to wait until the orgs are selected. At this point we don't know if we'll be selected and we don't have a list of projects ideas.

If you are interested in thredds_crawler, feel free to tackle any issue you know you can solve. We probably won't have many cycles to review big PRs, so keep them small with a limited context.

[muhd360]

@ocefpaf no i was just asking generally if there are any prs u could point me 2 would be glad 2 help
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[ocefpaf]

Try to familiarize yourself with the codebase and see what interests you.

[kthyng]

@ocefpaf I wanted to use siphon in place of this but as far as I can tell, siphon won't walk through nested thredds servers. Do you know otherwise?

[ocefpaf]

I do not, but we can ask upstream. If it is something we can workaround and/or upstream to siphon, what other features do you believe thredds_crawler has that is missing in siphon?

[kthyng]

I opened an issue in siphon to ask about this but haven't been back to this effort since then to follow up: Unidata/siphon#263

Doing some regex matching to include or exclude links I think is in thredds_crawler but not siphon and is handy.

[ocefpaf]

I'm an advocating we re-archive thredds_crawler, but siphon's performance made me think we should, at least, be using it under the hood as the crawler engine.