ir.webutils
Class DirectorySpider

java.lang.Object
  ir.webutils.Spider
      ir.webutils.DirectorySpider

public class DirectorySpider
extends Spider

Spider that limits itself to the directory it started in.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class ir.webutils.Spider

count, linksToVisit, maxCount, retriever, saveDir, slow, visited

Constructor Summary

DirectorySpider()

Method Summary

java.util.List<Link>	getNewLinks(HTMLPage page) Gets links from the page that are in or below the starting directory.
protected void	handleUCommandLineOption(java.lang.String value) Sets the initial URL from the "-u" argument, then calls the corresponding superclass method.
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Spider the web according to the following command options, but only below the start URL directory.

Methods inherited from class ir.webutils.Spider

doCrawl, go, handleCCommandLineOption, handleDCommandLineOption, handleSafeCommandLineOption, handleSlowCommandLineOption, indexPage, linkToHTMLPage, processArgs

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DirectorySpider

public DirectorySpider()

Method Detail

getNewLinks

public java.util.List<Link> getNewLinks(HTMLPage page)

Gets links from the page that are in or below the starting directory.

Overrides:

getNewLinks in class Spider

Parameters:

page - The current page.

Returns:

The links on page that are in or below the directory of the first page.

handleUCommandLineOption

protected void handleUCommandLineOption(java.lang.String value)

Sets the initial URL from the "-u" argument, then calls the corresponding superclass method.

Overrides:

handleUCommandLineOption in class Spider

Parameters:

value - The value of the "-u" command line argument.

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Spider the web according to the following command options, but only below the start URL directory.

• -safe : Check for and obey robots.txt and robots META tag directives.
• -d <directory> : Store indexed files in <directory>.
• -c <count> : Store at most <count> files.
• -u <url> : Start at <url>.
• -slow : Pause briefly before getting a page. This can be useful when debugging.