C++

Getting Started Spidering a Site

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This is a very simple "getting started" example for spidering a web site. As you'll see in future examples, the Chilkat Spider library can be used to crawl the Web. For now, we'll concentrate on spidering a single site. C++

#include <CkSpider.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkSpider spider;

    // The spider object crawls a single web site at a time.  As you'll see
    // in later examples, you can collect outbound links and use them to 
    // crawl the web.  For now, we'll simply spider 10 pages of chilkatsoft.com
    spider.Initialize("www.chilkatsoft.com");

    // Add the 1st URL:
    spider.AddUnspidered("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/");

    // Begin crawling the site by calling CrawlNext repeatedly.
    int i;
    for (i = 0; i <= 9; i++) {

        success = spider.CrawlNext();
        if (success == true) {
            // Show the URL of the page just spidered.
            std::cout << spider.lastUrl() << "\r\n";
            // The HTML is available in the LastHtml property
        }
        else {
            // Did we get an error or are there no more URLs to crawl?
            if (spider.get_NumUnspidered() == 0) {
                std::cout << "No more URLs to spider" << "\r\n";
            }
            else {
                std::cout << spider.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
            }

        }

        // Sleep 1 second before spidering the next URL.
        spider.SleepMs(1000);
    }
    }