Website Download Output Filters (List Filters) in Website Scan

Output filters are usually applied just after website crawling has finished. This means you can have website scanner crawl pages that are not necessarily included in final output. You can use output filters instead or in conjunction with webmaster filters (robots.txt, noindex, nofollow etc.) and analysis filters.

You can change behavior of how and when these filters get applied by changing Crawler options | Apply webmaster and list filters after website scan.

Note: For changes in output filters to take effect, you will need to scan your website again. The reason is that it is the website crawler that tags all found URLs with flags such as excluded by output filter.

• Links encountered by crawler are normally grouped in categories sitemap and external.
• With this option, you can decide which pages belong in sitemap.

If you do not need any of the advanced options for output filters, you can use the Delete and filter button after website scan.

URLs with file extensions not found in the list will not be included in website scan results.
If you remove all file extensions in the list, the file extension list filtering accepts all files.

• Strings:
  • blogs matches relative paths that contain "blogs".
  • @ matches relative paths that contain "@".
  • ? matches relative paths that contain "?".
• Special:
  • : when alone matches relative paths that first has ":" before any "?".
• Paths:
  • :s matches relative paths that start with "s" such as http://www.microsystools.com/services/ and http://www.microsystools.com/shop/.
  • :blogs/ matches relative paths that start with "blogs/" such as http://www.microsystools.com/blogs/.
• Subpaths:
  • :blogs/* matches relative paths excluding itself that start with "blogs/" such as http://www.microsystools.com/blogs/sitemap-generator/.
• Regular expression:
  • ::blog(s?)/ matches relative paths with regex such as http://www.microsystools.com/blogs/ and http://www.microsystools.com/blog/.
  • ::blogs/(2007|2008)/ matches relative paths with regex such as http://www.microsystools.com/blogs/2007/ and http://www.microsystools.com/blogs/2008/.
  • ::blogs/.*?keyword matches relative paths with regex such as http://www.microsystools.com/blogs/category/products/a1-keyword-research/.
  • ::^$ matches the empty relative path (i.e. the root) with regex such as http://www.microsystools.com/.

You can download a project file demonstrating various output filters.
From above examples it can be seen that:

• : alone = special match.
• : at start = paths match.
• : at start and * at end = makes paths into subpaths match.
• :: at start = regular expression match.
• None of above, normal string text match.

To add list filter item in dropdown: Type it and use the [+] button.
To remove list filter item in dropdown: Select it and use the [-] button.
You can view more information about the user interface controls used by A1 Website Download.