Transforming URI's

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

1. From the Project Properties dialog, click the URI Transforms option.

Adding a new transform

1. In the URL or Pattern fields, enter the search pattern using a regular expression.
2. Enter the text to replace the matched pattern with in the Replacement field.
3. Click the Add button

Deleting a transform

1. Select the transform you wish to remove from the list
2. Click the Delete button

Updating a transform

1. Select the transform you wish to edit from the list. The URL, Pattern and Replacement fields will be updated to match the selection.
2. 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

1. Select the transform you wish to move
2. Click the Move Up and Move Down buttons to re-order the transform list