Implementation of an efficient web crawler to search medicinal plants and relevant diseases

In Indian Ayurvedic system, medicinal plant is the important factor for different therapeutic uses. The medicinal plants are distributed over India. Hence collection of correct information of medicinal plants is needed for various researches. The huge amount of information related to medicinal plants domain is available on the Internet. Focused web crawler is useful for collecting such close domain information from the internet. In focused web crawler, to extract the relevant web page classification method is used. The classification algorithm classifies the web pages as relevant or not for a given query. In this paper, proposed method of an efficient focused web crawler is used to search the web pages for a medicinal plant domain. Naive Bayes classifier is used for classification of web pages. The proposed focused web crawler uses a manual thesaurus of medicinal plant information for query expansion.