Crawl Flash Files in Websites With Website Scraper

It is possible to crawl Flash files in websites. Just point our website scraper program to a Flash-to-HTML or Flash-to-XML conversion tool.

Enable Crawl of Flash Based Websites

First we need to enable crawling content inside Flash files:

crawl flash websites enable

After this we point our website scraper to a Flash to HTML conversion tool executable:

crawl flash websites tool

Adobe released such a tool as part of their SDK for Flash:

Alternatively, swfmill can also be used by A1 Website Scraper:

http://swfmill.org/

After having configured above, crawl your website as you normally would when using A1 Website Scraper.

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This help page is maintained by Thomas Schulz

As one of the lead developers, his hands have touched most of the code in the software from Microsys. If you email any questions, chances are that he will be the one answering.