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Must-Match Patterns

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You may restrict the spider to only follow links that match any one of a set of "must-match" wildcard patterns. The AddMustMatchPattern can be called repeatedly to add must-match patterns.

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Local $bSuccess = False

$oSpider = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Spider")

; --------------------------------------------------------------------
; Note: The URLs in this example are no longer valid.
; You should replace the URLs with URLs from a site of your
; own choosing -- preferably your own site if testing.
; (Google's Directory no longer exists.)
; --------------------------------------------------------------------

; First, we'll get the outbound links for a page in the
; Google directory.  Then we'll add some must-match
; and then re-fetch, to see it work...

$oSpider.Initialize "directory.google.com"
$oSpider.AddUnspidered "http://directory.google.com/Top/Recreation/Outdoors/Hiking/Backpacking/"

$bSuccess = $oSpider.CrawlNext()

; Display the outbound links
Local $i
Local $sUrl
For $i = 0 To $oSpider.NumOutboundLinks - 1
    ConsoleWrite($oSpider.GetOutboundLink($i) & @CRLF)
Next

; The output:
; http://www.backpacker.com
; http://www.cmc.org
; http://www.backpacking.net
; http://www.thebackpacker.com/
; http://www.rei.com/online/store/LearnShareArticlesList?categoryId=Camping
; http://www.trailspace.com/
; http://www.catskillhikes.com/
; http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/asia/nepal/favpicks.htm
; http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/index.html
; http://www.yetizone.com/
; http://www.backpackingfun.com
; http://www.freezerbagcooking.com/
; http://www.spadout.com/backpacking/
; http://sierrabackpacker.com
; http://www.abovecalifornia.com/
; http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/r/p/rpc1/bbb/
; http://www.thebackpackersguide.com
; http://www.journeywest.com/WB/index.html
; http://www.johann-sandra.com/backpackdir.htm
; http://www.geocities.com/amytys/
; http://www.cloudwalkersbasecamp.com
; http://www.netbackpacking.com
; http://members.tripod.com/~stooges/
; http://www.thebackpackingsite.com
; http://www.thruhikers.com/
; http://www.redcompservices.com/AT/
; http://members.aol.com/CMorHiker/backpack
; http://mywebpages.comcast.net/midwestpacker/
; http://www.midwesthiker.com/
; http://www.WeBackpack.com
; http://www.michiganhiker.com
; http://www.host33.com/backpack/
; http://www.wilderness-backpacking.com
; http://www.thetravelmonkey.net
; http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=Recreation/Outdoors/Hiking/Backpacking
; http://dmoz.org/about.html
; http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/apply.cgi?where=Recreation/Outdoors/Hiking/Backpacking
; http://dmoz.org
; http://dmoz.org/profiles/cdog.html
; http://dmoz.org/profiles/justinwp.html

; Do it again, but this time with avoid patterns.
$oSpider.Initialize "directory.google.com"
$oSpider.AddUnspidered "http://directory.google.com/Top/Recreation/Outdoors/Hiking/Backpacking/"

; Add some must-match patterns:
$oSpider.AddMustMatchPattern "*.com/*"
$oSpider.AddMustMatchPattern "*.net/*"

; Add some avoid-patterns:
$oSpider.AddAvoidOutboundLinkPattern "*.mypages.*"
$oSpider.AddAvoidOutboundLinkPattern "*.personal.*"
$oSpider.AddAvoidOutboundLinkPattern "*.comcast.*"
$oSpider.AddAvoidOutboundLinkPattern "*.aol.*"
$oSpider.AddAvoidOutboundLinkPattern "*~*"

$bSuccess = $oSpider.CrawlNext()

ConsoleWrite("-----------------------" & @CRLF)

; Display the outbound links
For $i = 0 To $oSpider.NumOutboundLinks - 1
    ConsoleWrite($oSpider.GetOutboundLink($i) & @CRLF)
Next

; Output:
; http://www.thebackpacker.com/
; http://www.rei.com/online/store/LearnShareArticlesList?categoryId=Camping
; http://www.trailspace.com/
; http://www.catskillhikes.com/
; http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/asia/nepal/favpicks.htm
; http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/index.html
; http://www.yetizone.com/
; http://www.freezerbagcooking.com/
; http://www.spadout.com/backpacking/
; http://www.abovecalifornia.com/
; http://www.journeywest.com/WB/index.html
; http://www.johann-sandra.com/backpackdir.htm
; http://www.geocities.com/amytys/
; http://www.thruhikers.com/
; http://www.redcompservices.com/AT/
; http://www.midwesthiker.com/
; http://www.host33.com/backpack