3.2. Crawl Seed

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Plugin Key

plugin_craw_seed_factory

Plugin Value Type

String

The string is the fully-qualified name of a Java class implementing the org.lockss.crawler.CrawlSeedFactory interface.

Sample

<entry>
  <string>plugin_craw_seed_factory</string>
  <string>edu.example.plugin.publisherx.PublisherXCrawlSeedFactory</string>
</entry>

Description

In lieu of a list of start URLs, code called a crawl seed can compute the starting points of the crawl of an AU, for instance by interacting with an API.