Sometimes you may wish to adjust a URI that WebCopy has detected when crawling a page, before the URI is further processed. For example, you might want to convert simple JavaScript navigation links into a URI, or remove a middle-man redirection page.
To configure the URI transforms
- From the Project Properties dialog, click the URI Transforms option.
Adding a new transform
- In the URL or Pattern fields, enter the search pattern using a regular expression.
- Enter the text to replace the matched pattern with in the Replacement field.
- Click the Add button
Deleting a transform
- Select the transform you wish to remove from the list
- Click the Delete button
Updating a transform
- Select the transform you wish to edit from the list. The URL, Pattern and Replacement fields will be updated to match the selection.
- Enter new values as appropriate. The selected item in the list will be updated with the changes you specify.
Changing the order transform are processed
- Select the transform you wish to move
- Click the Move Up and Move Down buttons to re-order the transform list
See Also
Customizing Projects
- Customizing Projects
- Specifying the web site
- Specifying the save folder
- Remapping extensions
- Specifying how a website is crawled
- Specifying default documents
- Crawling additional root URL's
- Updating local time stamps
- Scanning custom attributes
- Fixing sites using mixed prefixes
- Extracting inline data
Advanced Project Customization
- Advanced Project Customization
- Configuring the behaviour of link maps
- Configuring domain aliases
- Specifying a User Agent
- Disabling header checking
- Following redirects
- Crawling above the root URL
- HTTP Compression
- Using a proxy server
- Crawling additional hosts
- Configuring security protocols
- Defining custom headers