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Crawler's personalities are driven to a great extent by means of configuration files.  
 
Crawler's personalities are driven to a great extent by means of configuration files.  
  
There is no hard rule that dictates how these configuration files should be created - they could be text files, [[INI file|''INI files''], XML-based files,...
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There is no hard rule that dictates how these configuration files should be created - they could be text files, [[INI file|''INI files'']], XML-based files,...
  
Because [[INI file|''INI files''] are easy to understand for end-users, most of the pre-made personalities use INI-based configuration files.
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Because [[INI file|''INI files'']] are easy to understand for end-users, most of the pre-made personalities use INI-based configuration files.
  
 
For more popular personalities, GUI-driven configuration tools might be provided, but in many cases, the GUI-development might lag, in which case the next easiest method to (re)configure a Crawler personality is to edit one or more configuration files.
 
For more popular personalities, GUI-driven configuration tools might be provided, but in many cases, the GUI-development might lag, in which case the next easiest method to (re)configure a Crawler personality is to edit one or more configuration files.

Revision as of 06:11, 27 December 2013

Configuration File

Crawler's personalities are driven to a great extent by means of configuration files.

There is no hard rule that dictates how these configuration files should be created - they could be text files, INI files, XML-based files,...

Because INI files are easy to understand for end-users, most of the pre-made personalities use INI-based configuration files.

For more popular personalities, GUI-driven configuration tools might be provided, but in many cases, the GUI-development might lag, in which case the next easiest method to (re)configure a Crawler personality is to edit one or more configuration files.