JCrawler
Version
1.13 Stable (last update on Jun 24, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
75
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
13 July 2008
Features:
- sitemap generation on the fly, no additional plugins needed
- submit sitemap to 4 searchengines (google, Bing, ask.com, moreover)
- Automatic priority calculation based on internal PageRank (experimental)
- shows bad links, or not crawlable sites
- with curl: max 250 parallel connections to spider urls (configurable)
- exclude list
- modification of robots.txt with the location of the sitemap
- crawling with curl of fopen
- saves config in a xml-file
There is a new forum and a new dedicated page for JCrawler!
JCrawler is under redeveloppment to create with even more features.
Note:
- fopen or Curl is required to crawl the site
This component has a nice layout, and appears to be a very helpful resource to make sitemap generation and submission simple. My website, which consists of over two hundred pages, generated a single url using this tool. Sitemap submission failed for both Bing and ask.com. The documentation claims to submit sitemaps to "4 searchengines (google, Bing, ask.com, moreover)", yet it only attempted to submit the sitemap to three (google, Bing, and ask.com). I have uninstalled this extension and would not recommend it to anyone.
Would give five start but something didn't allow me. I have some links in the site which are not directly linked from front page but they are in the menu of back end. Even if I directly browse links they are running properly. Unline Xmap, JCrawler do not have menu selection option white making sitemap that disappointed. If there is option to select 'Menus" before making sitemap would be excellent.
Thanks!
Thanks!
I used Xmap and it was only able to find 28 links on my site to put in the sitemap. It did it through the menu. I then tried some other fw-sitemap thing and it didn't even have an admin interface. Go figure.
JCrawler was perfect. It found 52 links, and made a nice XML file for me too! Simple and perfect. It makes me wonder how developers (others) can get simple use value so wrong.
Well done JCrawler!
JCrawler was perfect. It found 52 links, and made a nice XML file for me too! Simple and perfect. It makes me wonder how developers (others) can get simple use value so wrong.
Well done JCrawler!
This is a pretty good sitemap generator. Would like to see an option to exclude the robots.txt paths. Generated some errors from the MYSQL, but it's working anyway.
I used to work with XMAP but they messed it up completely, now it's based on the menu, instead of on the actual content on the site.
Keep the good work!
I used to work with XMAP but they messed it up completely, now it's based on the menu, instead of on the actual content on the site.
Keep the good work!
I never thought I would be excited about a mapping utility!
I installed on joomla 2.5 site and in less than five minutes it had the map built and submitted.
I double checked the map to make sure it was built properly because I have had problems with other extensions that are similar and eveything checked out.
Bravo to you dear developer...this is a great piece of work.
I hope everyone donates to keep you work on this going.
My advise to anyone reading this... run this before trying anything else. It will save you a lot of time and frustration.
I installed on joomla 2.5 site and in less than five minutes it had the map built and submitted.
I double checked the map to make sure it was built properly because I have had problems with other extensions that are similar and eveything checked out.
Bravo to you dear developer...this is a great piece of work.
I hope everyone donates to keep you work on this going.
My advise to anyone reading this... run this before trying anything else. It will save you a lot of time and frustration.
Having experienced problems with other sitemap components, this was the perfect solution. There was a lot of my site I did not want mapped and between the robots file and the configuration of this great component it was quick and easy to configure the sitemap and submit to Bing and Google. I'm now using this on all my sites! Recommended!
I have installed several extensions trying to achieve a simple sitemap to 5 sites.
After installed Jcrawler the problem was completely solved in a few seconds.
There is some minor errors. But they are releasing bug fixing versions in a few time base. So it will be 5 stars with the time.
Congratulations to the theme. And keep up the good effort.
After installed Jcrawler the problem was completely solved in a few seconds.
There is some minor errors. But they are releasing bug fixing versions in a few time base. So it will be 5 stars with the time.
Congratulations to the theme. And keep up the good effort.
Worked great and easy to use. Submission to search engines an added bonus.
wonderfull, just working.
No plugins needed for virtuemart ...
No plugins needed for virtuemart ...
I've used Xmaps in the past but with the new 2.5 installs, I have used Jcrawler. It works as advertised. I like the auto-submit to the three major search engines. Very happy!
I tried the other big ones and I was very frustrated. I wanted to do one simple thing which was exclude some links which this let me do very easily. If you just want a nice sitemap for content articles this is a great extension.
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