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SMILA/Documentation/Web Crawler
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What does Web Crawler do
A WebCrawler collects data from the internet. Starting with an initial URL it recursively crawls all linked Websites. Due to the manifold capabilities of webpage structures and much linking to other pages, the configuration of this crawler enables you to limit the downloaded data to match your needs.
Crawling configuration
Defining Schema: org.eclipse.smila.connectivitiy.framework.crawler.web/schemas/WebIndexOrder.xsd
Crawling configuration explanation
The root element of crawling configuration is IndexOrderConfiguration and contains the following sub elements:
- DataSourceID – the identification of a data source.
- SchemaID – specify the schema for a crawler job.
- DataConnectionID – describes which agent crawler should be used.
- Crawler – implementation class of a Crawler.
- Agent – implementation class of an Agent.