Injecting URLs to crawl

Use this API to insert URLs in the URL database.

Requirement: OpenSearchServer v1.5

Call parameters

URL: /services/rest/index/{index_name}/crawler/web/urls

Method: PUT

HTTP Header:

  • Content-Type (required): application/json
  • Accept (optional returned type): application/json or application/xml

URL parameters:

  • index_name (required): The name of the index.

Raw data (PUT):
An array of patterns.

[
"http://www.open-search-server.com/",
"https://github.com/jaeksoft/opensearchserver/",
"https://sourceforge.net/projects/opensearchserve/"
]

Success response

The URLs have been inserted.

HTTP code:
200

Content (application/json):

{
"successful": true,
"info": "Injected: 1 - Already: 2"
}

Error response

The insertion failed. The reason why is provided in the content.

HTTP code:
500

Sample call

Using CURL:

curl -XPUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '["http://www.open-search-server.com/"]' \
http://localhost:8080/services/rest/index/my_index/crawler/web/urls

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