
Because of this you can leave the spider running and continue to You must be connected to the internet to use the spider and scanning a full 1000 pages may take some time (The Spider program icon will animate to show you that the program is still running).

Using the buttons at the base of the dialog you can save a trace while it is in progress and resume mapping on an incomplete website map. At this point the map will be automatically saved into the 'Maps' folder. The spider will continue to map the site until it reaches 1000 pages or it has found all the pages it can. You can toggle the program from 'running' to 'paused' by clicking the button next to the Trace Progress header. The spider will then start scanning the chosen website for pages and links, a status report is displayed in the center window. You launch the spider with 'spider.exe' and after entering a URL of a website in the top field you can hit return or press the Links as an abstract molecular structure. The Visualizer allows these maps to be viewed in 3D and represents the pages and The Spider is used to visit websites and produce map files containing information about their WebTracer is spilt into two programs the 'Spider' and the 'Visualizer'.

This should fix the problems some users have had (you should be able to just unzip and run now) dll files that are needed to run the spider on some PCs. UPDATE: I have changed the download file to include some. With pages as nodes(atoms) and links as the strings(atomic forces) that connect those nodes together. Webtracer represents this structure as a three dimensional molecular diagram,

There are many applications that analyse websites for structural integrity and diagnostic purposes,īut few reveal the visual structure that web hypertext creates. WebTracer is an project based on the intention to visualise the structure of the web.
