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PHP-Crawler is a very simple crawl/search script with fulltext support for small websites. Simple, based on PHP and MySQL. No shell access required, crawling can be run from browser. Created ages ago (back in year 2006) it stays one of the most popular php crawler scripts in the world.
Features
- Full text indexing
- Crawling is limited by depth setting
- Safe spidering: allow to limit maximum page size
- Following “href=” links on web page, in HTML or JavaScripts
- MySQL based
- Simple installation
Requirements
- PHP 4.3.10+
- MySQL 3.23.56+
Distribution
Last version available on SourceForge under terms of BSD Licence.
sunel says:
hi your php crawler was very useful for our small project but i need help ,this works within my localhost only i need to make it work int entire web ….i look forward for u help please thank u in advance …..
vlad says:
You may want to set $CRAWL_ENTRY_POINT_URL in config file pointing out of your localhost (for 0.7.7-alpha), but please note, that PHP-crawler is not designed to crawl the entire web
Vikram says:
Your Crawler is superb man, i want to know the algorithm u hav used in ths to crawl. The algorithm used to search. N hw to use ths to crawl multiple sites at a time
Thanks in advance
Buttonator says:
Hi!
Some dirs/file are missing from the package (tpl/elt/head.php; tpl/top/table.php; tpl/bot/html.php). As I seen in config, they must be created with right path, but which is the content of them?
Johnny Wunder says:
I really like phpCrawler gives we exactly what I want in terms of a lightweight crawler I can point at whatever web site I want to analyze but I seem to be misinterpreting the use the the $CRAWL_PAGE_EXPIRE_DAYS parameter. On line 39 within function markOldURLsToCrawl of my version of _crawler.php it checks to see if the crawl time has expired and needs to be recrawled but then regardless of the results it deletes words on line 40 which causes the search to no longer work for the follow-on searches until the site is recrawled. That doesn’t seem right to me? Do I have a good version and am I interpreting it right?
Johnny
Edward says:
Small enhancement to crawler.sql script on Sourceforge:
create table phpcrawler_links () ENGINE = MYISAM;
otherwise, freetext index will fail
vlad says:
Edward, good catch, thank you!
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mekix says:
me gusta mucho su crawler! gracias por crearlo, saludos desde Perú
NikoS says:
Hello , my question is:With php-crawler can index pdf or doc files?
Thanks
Roylee says:
how to index a website the path u gave to start crawl it redirects to search.php / home page quick reply is appreciated thanks !
uche umeevuruo says:
Please, the crawler does not crawl my site. Please how do I rectify this issue?
Marvin Hand says:
1. I love it and Thanks
2. You should go over these codes again.
Dharav Samani says:
Where the content of crawled web pages are stored????
Can crawler gives the flexibility to extract only the user comments from the entire webpage?
Which other parameters can we change such as CRAWL_DEPTH, $CRAWL_PAGE_EXPIRE_DAYS,etc?