JavaScript

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. JavaScript

var success = false;

var spider = new CkSpider();

// 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.
var i;
for (i = 0; i <= 9; i++) {

    success = spider.CrawlNext();
    if (success == true) {
        // Show the URL of the page just spidered.
        console.log(spider.LastUrl);
        // The HTML is available in the LastHtml property
    }
    else {
        // Did we get an error or are there no more URLs to crawl?
        if (spider.NumUnspidered == 0) {
            console.log("No more URLs to spider");
        }
        else {
            console.log(spider.LastErrorText);
        }

    }

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