Setting a Maximum URL Length

The MaxUrlLen property prevents the spider from retrieving URLs that grow too long. The default value of MaxUrlLen is 300.

Download Chilkat Spider ActiveX

' The Chilkat Spider component/library is free.
set spider = CreateObject("Chilkat.Spider")

spider.Initialize "www.chilkatsoft.com"

' Add the 1st URL:
spider.AddUnspidered "http://www.chilkatsoft.com/"

' This example demonstrates setting the MaxUrlLen property
' Do not add URLs longer than 250 characters to the "unspidered" queue:
spider.MaxUrlLen = 250

' ...