EXT:versatile_crawler
Versatile Crawler is basically an extension to crawl pages and content in an TYPO3 CMS installation.
It is developed on the basis of TYPO3 CMS version 8. The extension has a clear and easily understandable
structure and provides queue and crawler functions for pages and records., (*1)
Installation & Setup
Clone the extension from GitHub, manually or via composer, and activate the extension via the extension manager.
Create a crawler configuration record on the page you like to start the indexing on, e.g. on the homepage.
Go the scheduler module and create a queue task and a process task. Configure a cron job that triggers
TYPO3 CMS' scheduler., (*2)
Prerequisites
- TYPO3 CMS 8
- PHP 7 w/ cURL
Documentation
The documentation can be found in the GitHub wiki: https://github.com/webcoast-dk/versatile-crawler/wiki, (*3)
Contributing
Feel free to fork the repository, make changes and create a pull request. If you are not into coding
or do not have the time, open up an issue., (*4)
Credits
The extension is developed and maintained by Thorben Nissen (https://www.kapp-hamburg.de/en/), (*5)
License
Copyright (C) 2017 Thorben Nissen, (*6)
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version., (*7)
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details., (*8)
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/., (*9)
Icons
The icons are taken from the Material design (https://materialdesignicons.com/) and are licensed under
the SIL Open Font License 1.1., (*10)