PureBasic

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. PureBasic

IncludeFile "CkSpider.pb"

Procedure ChilkatExample()

    success.i = 0

    spider.i = CkSpider::ckCreate()
    If spider.i = 0
        Debug "Failed to create object."
        ProcedureReturn
    EndIf

    ; 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
    CkSpider::ckInitialize(spider,"www.chilkatsoft.com")

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

    ; Begin crawling the site by calling CrawlNext repeatedly.
    i.i
    For i = 0 To 9

        success = CkSpider::ckCrawlNext(spider)
        If success = 1
            ; Show the URL of the page just spidered.
            Debug CkSpider::ckLastUrl(spider)
            ; The HTML is available in the LastHtml property
        Else
            ; Did we get an error or are there no more URLs to crawl?
            If CkSpider::ckNumUnspidered(spider) = 0
                Debug "No more URLs to spider"
            Else
                Debug CkSpider::ckLastErrorText(spider)
            EndIf

        EndIf

        ; Sleep 1 second before spidering the next URL.
        CkSpider::ckSleepMs(spider,1000)
    Next


    CkSpider::ckDispose(spider)


    ProcedureReturn
EndProcedure