Crawls web-sites to find new links.

C# | Visual Basic | Visual C++ |
public class WebSiteSpider
Public Class WebSiteSpider
public ref class WebSiteSpider

All Members | Constructors | Methods | Properties | Events | |
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![]() | WebSiteSpider(Configuration) |
Creates a new instance.
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![]() | AddedDocument |
Fired when a document has been added to the index.
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![]() | AddingDocument |
Fired when a document is about to be added to the index.
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![]() | CancelCrawl()()() |
Cancels the crawl.
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![]() | Close()()() |
Closes the index for use
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![]() | Configuration |
Gets the instance of the Configuration class that holds the settings to be used.
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![]() | Crawl()()() | Obsolete.
Starts the spidering process, which will recrawl all the existing documents for new links.
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![]() | Crawl(String, Boolean) | Obsolete.
Starts the spidering process, which will recrawl all the existing documents for new links.
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![]() | Crawl(String, Boolean, WebsiteBasedIndexableSourceRecord) | Obsolete.
Starts the spidering process, which will recrawl all the existing documents for new links.
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![]() | Crawl(ArrayList) | Obsolete.
Crawls all URL strings in urlList, adds new document URLs (including those from urlList)
to the 'database' and returns list of newly found URLs.
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![]() | Crawl(ArrayList, ArrayList) | Obsolete.
Crawls all URL strings in urlList, adds new document URLs (including those from urlList)
to the 'database' and returns list of newly found URLs.
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![]() | Crawl(ArrayList, ArrayList, WebsiteBasedIndexableSourceRecord) | Obsolete.
Crawls all URL strings in urlList, adds new document URLs (including those from urlList)
to the 'database' and returns list of newly found URLs.
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![]() | CreateNewDocument(DocumentRecord) |
Called whenever a Document object is created, override this method to use Document subclasses.
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![]() | DataAccess |
The data-access layer.
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![]() | DiscoverLinkedURLs(ArrayList, ArrayList, ArrayList) |
Crawls all URLs in urlList, and returns list of all newly found
URLs (whether they are known to the document index or not, and not including urls in urlList)
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![]() | DiscoverLinkedURLs(ArrayList, ArrayList, ArrayList, ArrayList) |
Crawls all URLs in urlList, and adds found URLs to discoveredURLs list (whether they are known to the document index or not, and not including urls in urlList)
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![]() | DiscoverLinkedURLs(ArrayList, ArrayList, ArrayList, ArrayList, ArrayList, Boolean, ArrayList, WebSiteSpider..::.DiscoveredDocumentHandler) |
Crawls all URLs in urlList, and adds found URLs to discoveredURLs list (whether they are known to the document index or not, and not including urls in urlList)
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![]() | DocumentShouldBeCrawled(Document) | Obsolete.
Method called from Crawl - checks if the current document type is
specified as to be crawled in config file, returning true - if so
(files types from config file are stored in class member when the object is instantiated)
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![]() | Equals(Object) |
Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | Finalize()()() |
Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection.
(Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetHashCode()()() |
Serves as a hash function for a particular type.
(Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetIndexedDocuments()()() | Obsolete.
Gets all the indexed documents from the document table, as an ArrayList of Document objects
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![]() | GetType()()() |
Gets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | IsDocumentToBeCrawled(Document, Boolean, Boolean, String, ArrayList, ArrayList) |
Method called during crawl - checks if the current document type is
specified as to be crawled in config file, returning true - if so
(files types from config file are stored in class member when the object is instantiated)
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![]() | MemberwiseClone()()() |
Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | NewLinkNo |
Number of new links found so far.
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![]() | OnReaderExceptionOccurred(ReaderException, Uri) |
Called whenever a readerException is caught
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![]() | Open()()() |
Opens the index for use.
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![]() | PrefilterDocumentToCrawl(Document) |
Called during crawl to identify if the document might be crawled. Will return false if the document won't be crawled based on it's URL.
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![]() | ProcessedLinkNo |
The number of processed links.
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![]() | ReaderExceptionOccurred | Fired whenever the (web) reader encounters a network exception, eg. 404 (this can be useful for identifying dead links) |
![]() | ToString()()() |
Returns a String that represents the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.) |

Before any operations (Crawl, GetIndexedDocuments) can be performed the index must
be opened with Open (otherwise a KeyotiFatalException is thrown) - and should be closed afterwards with Close.

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![]() | WebSiteSpider |