Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Crawljax gets a face lift. Web UI in Crawljax 3.5

Crawljax is an open source tool for crawling Ajax-based modern web applications by analyzing DOM state changes. Latest feature that will be available with Crawljax 3.5 is a Web front end for Crawljax. It supports all the major functionality of crawljax like, adding/editing crawl configurations, installing plugins, viewing crawl logs in real time and displaying plugin output. This is implemented using the common java web application stack and ember.js MVC framework. Kudos to developers, @jeremyhewett and @ryansolid.
To run it, simply unzip the web distribution archive and run the command java -jar crawljax-web-3.5-SNAPSHOT.jar. You can customize the port and output directory using -p and -o arguments. Here are some screen-shots of the web interface in action. More usage tutorials will follow.
Crawljax Web UI Home - You can start by adding a 'New Configuration' as shown

'Edit Configuration' Page
'Add Plugin' Page

Crawl status log with real-time updates
Output of the Crawl Overview plugin
Read the original post at crawljax.com

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