README

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.

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.

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

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.

Credits

The extension is developed and maintained by Thorben Nissen (https://www.kapp-hamburg.de/en/)

License

Copyright (C) 2017 Thorben Nissen

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.

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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Icons

The icons are taken from the Material design (https://materialdesignicons.com/) and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.