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gabrieldavis321
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Feb 9, 2023 7:15 PM UTC
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Can Coldfusion 2016 spider a site?

Can Coldfusion 2016 spider a site out of the box? If not can solr that ships with CF spider a site

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    Dave WattsCorrect answer
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    Feb 9, 2023 7:29 PM UTC

    Neither CF 2016 nor Solr crawl a site "out-of-the-box". But you can write code in CFML that can crawl a site using CFHTTP, or you can use Apache Nutch to crawl a site and write results to Solr's storage. Both of those answers are kind of lame, but there you are.

     

    Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC

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    Dave WattsCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    Feb 9, 2023 7:29 PM UTC

    Neither CF 2016 nor Solr crawl a site "out-of-the-box". But you can write code in CFML that can crawl a site using CFHTTP, or you can use Apache Nutch to crawl a site and write results to Solr's storage. Both of those answers are kind of lame, but there you are.

     

    Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC

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    gabrieldavis321Author
    Inspiring
    Feb 9, 2023 7:35 PM UTC

    Thanks!  That is exactly what my googling reveal.

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    BKBK
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    Feb 10, 2023 10:21 AM UTC

    Dave has answered your question. 

    Here is additional information you might be interested in: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/282654/recommendations-for-a-spidering-tool-to-use-with-lucene-or-solr 

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