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Re:How to write a crawler by TheLoneWolfling on Sunday September 29, 2013 @08:24PM (#6467147)
Store a hash of each file you already have. If too many items from a single website collide, throw up a warning/error/flag for help/use some fuzzy method of identifying clashing URLs.

If that's too slow/space-intensive, try a bloom filter.

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