WebCopy includes a helper tool that can check to see if a given URL is a match for any rules in a project.
The Results list shows all rules in the current project. For each rule, a status will be displayed showing how the rule was processed against the source URL.
In addition, an overall status is displayed that states if the given URL was matched against the specified option. You can use this status to determine if a URL will be correctly included or excluded from a crawl of the source website.
Each rule will display one of four different states as outlined below.
Icon | Description |
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![]() | The rule was ran and was a match for the specified option |
![]() | The rule was ran and but was not a match for the specified option |
![]() | The rule was not ran as an earlier matched rule had the "Stop Processing" flag set |
![]() | The rule was not ran as it is disabled |
In the above example, a sample project has 5 rules defined. When testing the URL http://forums.example.com/forum/lore/
against these 5 rules, the following results can be observed