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Crawler able to follow javascript generated links

         

bottester

8:31 pm on Jan 13, 2002 (gmt 0)



Do you know of any crawler able to follow
javascript generated links.

I am referring to links which are computed on the fly.

mivox

9:23 pm on Jan 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I have't heard of anyone followinf javascript links... but if the link is just genrated via javascript <a href="url"> type link, I suppose a spider could follow it...

Could you be more specific about how the links are generated?

Brett_Tabke

12:09 am on Jan 21, 2002 (gmt 0)

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There are some spiders that will extract every http: url it runs into, even in javascript. No mainstream se's spiders that I know of.

jamie81

5:02 pm on Jan 24, 2002 (gmt 0)



It appears to me that Looksmart is following javascript on my pages, and indexing the page the javascript is pointing to. I am intereseted to know if this is in fact what is happening. Can the major search engines now follow javascript links?