Must-Match Patterns

You may restrict the spider to only follow links that match any one of a set of "must-match" wildcard patterns. The AddMustMatchPattern can be called repeatedly to add must-match patterns.

Download Chilkat Spider ActiveX

LOCAL loSpider
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL i
LOCAL lcUrl

* The Chilkat Spider component/library is free.
loSpider = CreateObject('Chilkat.Spider')

* First, we'll get the outbound links for a page in the
* Google directory.  Then we'll add some must-match
* and then re-fetch, to see it work...

loSpider.Initialize("directory.google.com")
loSpider.AddUnspidered("http://directory.google.com/Top/Recreation/Outdoors/Hiking/Backpacking/")

lnSuccess = loSpider.CrawlNext()

* Display the outbound links

FOR i = 0 TO loSpider.NumOutboundLinks - 1
    ? loSpider.GetOutboundLink(i)
NEXT

* The output:
* http://www.backpacker.com
* http://www.cmc.org
* http://www.backpacking.net
* http://www.thebackpacker.com/
* http://www.rei.com/online/store/LearnShareArticlesList?categoryId=Camping
* http://www.trailspace.com/
* http://www.catskillhikes.com/
* http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/asia/nepal/favpicks.htm
* http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/index.html
* http://www.yetizone.com/
* http://www.backpackingfun.com
* http://www.freezerbagcooking.com/
* http://www.spadout.com/backpacking/
* http://sierrabackpacker.com
* http://www.abovecalifornia.com/
* http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/r/p/rpc1/bbb/
* http://www.thebackpackersguide.com
* http://www.journeywest.com/WB/index.html
* http://www.johann-sandra.com/backpackdir.htm
* http://www.geocities.com/amytys/
* http://www.cloudwalkersbasecamp.com
* http://www.netbackpacking.com
* http://members.tripod.com/~stooges/
* http://www.thebackpackingsite.com
* http://www.thruhikers.com/
* http://www.redcompservices.com/AT/
* http://members.aol.com/CMorHiker/backpack
* http://mywebpages.comcast.net/midwestpacker/
* http://www.midwesthiker.com/
* http://www.WeBackpack.com
* http://www.michiganhiker.com
* http://www.host33.com/backpack/
* http://www.wilderness-backpacking.com
* http://www.thetravelmonkey.net
* http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=Recreation/Outdoors/Hiking/Backpacking
* http://dmoz.org/about.html
* http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/apply.cgi?where=Recreation/Outdoors/Hiking/Backpacking
* http://dmoz.org
* http://dmoz.org/profiles/cdog.html
* http://dmoz.org/profiles/justinwp.html

* Do it again, but this time with avoid patterns.
loSpider.Initialize("directory.google.com")
loSpider.AddUnspidered("http://directory.google.com/Top/Recreation/Outdoors/Hiking/Backpacking/")

* Add some must-match patterns:
loSpider.AddMustMatchPattern("*.com/*")
loSpider.AddMustMatchPattern("*.net/*")

* Add some avoid-patterns:
loSpider.AddAvoidOutboundLinkPattern("*.mypages.*")
loSpider.AddAvoidOutboundLinkPattern("*.personal.*")
loSpider.AddAvoidOutboundLinkPattern("*.comcast.*")
loSpider.AddAvoidOutboundLinkPattern("*.aol.*")
loSpider.AddAvoidOutboundLinkPattern("*~*")

lnSuccess = loSpider.CrawlNext()

? "-----------------------"

* Display the outbound links
FOR i = 0 TO loSpider.NumOutboundLinks - 1
    ? loSpider.GetOutboundLink(i)
NEXT

* Output:
* http://www.thebackpacker.com/
* http://www.rei.com/online/store/LearnShareArticlesList?categoryId=Camping
* http://www.trailspace.com/
* http://www.catskillhikes.com/
* http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/asia/nepal/favpicks.htm
* http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/index.html
* http://www.yetizone.com/
* http://www.freezerbagcooking.com/
* http://www.spadout.com/backpacking/
* http://www.abovecalifornia.com/
* http://www.journeywest.com/WB/index.html
* http://www.johann-sandra.com/backpackdir.htm
* http://www.geocities.com/amytys/
* http://www.thruhikers.com/
* http://www.redcompservices.com/AT/
* http://www.midwesthiker.com/
* http://www.host33.com/backpack/